ὀχυρόω
fortify, make strong
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀχυρόω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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.
- Joshua 6:1 ὀχυρόω Now Jericho was closely shut up and besieged, and none went out of it, and none came in.
- 2 Chronicles 11:11 ὀχυρόω And he fortified them with walls, and placed in them captains, and stores of provisions, oil and wine,
- Jeremiah 28:53 ὀχυρόω For though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and though she should strengthen her walls with her power, from me shall come they that shall destroy her, says the Lord.
About this word
About this word
ὀχυρόω (ochyróō), “fortify, make strong,” 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 3 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 →
