μόλιβος
lead (metal)
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where μόλιβος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 9 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 15:10 μόλιβος You sent forth your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.
- Numbers 31:22 μόλιβος Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,
- Job 19:24 μόλιβος with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
- Ezekiel 22:18 μόλιβος Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.
- Ezekiel 22:20 μόλιβος As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in my wrath, and I will gather and melt you.
- Ezekiel 27:12 μόλιβος The Carthaginians were your merchants because of the abundance of all your strength; they furnished your market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead.
About this word
About this word
μόλιβος (mólibos), “lead (metal),” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 9 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →