ὄμφαξ
unripe grape
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὄμφαξ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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 15:33 ὄμφαξ And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
- Proverbs 10:26 ὄμφαξ As a sour grape is hurtful to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so iniquity hurts those that practise it.
- Isaiah 18:5 ὄμφαξ Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;
- Jeremiah 38:29 ὄμφαξ In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.
- Jeremiah 38:30 ὄμφαξ But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.
- Ezekiel 18:2 ὄμφαξ Son of man, what mean you⌃ by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?
About this word
About this word
ὄμφαξ (ómphax), “unripe grape,” 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 6 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 →
