ὠμία
shoulder-piece
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὠμία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 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.
- 1 Samuel 9:2 ὠμία And this man had a son, and his name was Saul, of great stature, a goodly man; and there was not among the sons of Israel a goodlier than he, high above all the people from his shoulders and upward.
- 1 Samuel 10:23 ὠμία And he ran and took him thence, and he set him in the midst of the people; and he was higher than all the people by his shoulders and upwards.
- 1 Kings 6:8 ὠμία And the porch of the under side was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story.
- 1 Kings 7:17 ὠμία And he made two ornaments of network to cover the capitals of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter.
- 1 Kings 7:20 ὠμία and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width.
- 1 Kings 7:25 ὠμία And there were twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them.
- 1 Kings 7:25 ὠμία And there were twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them.
- 1 Kings 7:25 ὠμία And there were twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them.
- 1 Kings 7:39 ὠμία And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.
- 2 Kings 11:11 ὠμία And the footmen stood each with his weapon in his hand from the right corner of the house to the left corner of the house, by the altar and the house round about the king.
- 2 Kings 11:11 ὠμία And the footmen stood each with his weapon in his hand from the right corner of the house to the left corner of the house, by the altar and the house round about the king.
- 2 Chronicles 23:10 ὠμία And he set the whole people, every man with his arms, from the right side of the house to the left side of the altar and the house, over against the king round about.
- 2 Chronicles 23:10 ὠμία And he set the whole people, every man with his arms, from the right side of the house to the left side of the altar and the house, over against the king round about.
About this word
About this word
ὠμία (ōmía), “shoulder-piece,” 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 13 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 →