ὀπίσθιος
hinder, rear
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀπίσθιος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Exodus 26:23 ὀπίσθιος And you shall make two posts on the corners of the tabernacle behind.
- Exodus 26:27 ὀπίσθιος and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea.
- Exodus 36:26 ὀπίσθιος And they put them on the two circlets, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod opposite each other in front.
- 1 Kings 7:13 ὀπίσθιος And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre,
- 2 Chronicles 4:4 ὀπίσθιος wherein they made them twelve calves, —three looking northwards, and three westwards, and three southwards, and three eastwards: and the sea was upon them above, and their hinder parts were inward.
- Jeremiah 13:22 ὀπίσθιος And if you should say in your heart, Therefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been revealed, that your heels might be exposed.
- Ezekiel 8:16 ὀπίσθιος And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.
About this word
About this word
ὀπίσθιος (opísthios), “hinder, rear,” 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 7 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 →