μυκτήρ
nostril, snout
Where this word appears
Every passage where μυκτήρ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. 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.
- Numbers 11:20 μυκτήρ you⌃ shall eat for a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be nausea to you, because you⌃ disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?
- 2 Kings 19:28 μυκτήρ Because you were angry against me, and your fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in your nostrils, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
- Job 40:26 μυκτήρ And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither shall they carry his head in fishing vessels.
- Job 41:12 μυκτήρ His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
- Proverbs 30:33 μυκτήρ Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if you wing one's nostrils there shall come out blood: so if you extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.
- Song of Solomon 7:5 μυκτήρ Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.
- Ezekiel 16:12 μυκτήρ And I put a pendant on your nostril, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head.
- Ezekiel 23:25 μυκτήρ And I will bring upon you my jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and shall cast down your remnant with the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your remnant fire shall devour.
About this word
About this word
μυκτήρ (myktḗr), “nostril, snout,” 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 8 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 →