ὀλιγόω
make few, diminish
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀλιγόω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 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.
- Judges 10:16 ὀλιγόω And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.
- 2 Kings 4:3 ὀλιγόω And he said to her, Go, borrow for yourself vessels without of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
- Ezra 19:32 ὀλιγόω
- Psalms 11:2 ὀλιγόω Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.
- Psalms 106:39 ὀλιγόω Again they become few, and are brought low, by the pressure of evils and pain.
- Proverbs 10:27 ὀλιγόω The fear of the Lord adds length of days: but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.
- Ecclesiastes 12:3 ὀλιγόω in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall become bent, and the grinding women cease because they have become few, and the women looking out at the windows be dark;
- Joel 1:10 ὀλιγόω For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
- Joel 1:12 ὀλιγόω The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.
- Nahum 1:4 ὀλιγόω He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nothing.
- Habakkuk 3:12 ὀλιγόω You will bring low the land with threatening, and in wrath you will break down the nations.
About this word
About this word
ὀλιγόω (oligóō), “make few, diminish,” 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 11 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 →