νυκτικόραξ
night-raven, owl
Where this word appears
Every passage where νυκτικόραξ 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.
- Leviticus 11:17 νυκτικόραξ and the night-raven and the cormorant and the stork,
- Deuteronomy 14:17 νυκτικόραξ and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
- 1 Samuel 26:20 νυκτικόραξ And now let not my blood fall to the ground before the Lord, for the king of Israel has come forth to seek your life, as the night hawk pursues its prey in the mountains.
- Psalms 101:7 νυκτικόραξ I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.
About this word
About this word
νυκτικόραξ (nyktikórax), “night-raven, owl,” 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 →
