μύλη
millstone, mill
Where this word appears
Every passage where μύλη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Job 29:17 μύλη And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.
- Psalms 57:7 μύλη They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
- Proverbs 30:14 μύλη A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.
- Joel 1:6 μύλη For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion's whelp.
About this word
About this word
μύλη (mýlē), “millstone, mill,” 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 4 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 →
