ὄργανον
instrument, tool
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὄργανον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 19 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.
- 2 Samuel 6:5 ὄργανον And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.
- 2 Samuel 6:14 ὄργανον And David sounded with well-tuned instruments before the Lord, and David was clothed with a fine long robe.
- 1 Chronicles 6:17 ὄργανον And these are the names of the sons of Gedson; Lobeni, and Semei.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16 ὄργανον And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.
- 1 Chronicles 16:5 ὄργανον Asaph was the chief, and next to him Zacharias, Jeiel, Semiramoth, and Jeiel, Mattathias, Eliab, and Banaeas, and Abdedom: and Jeiel sounding with musical instruments, lutes and harps, and Asaph with cymbals:
- 1 Chronicles 16:42 ὄργανον And with them there were trumpets and cymbals to sound aloud, and musical instruments for the songs of God: and the sons of Idithun were at the gate.
- 1 Chronicles 23:5 ὄργανον and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 ὄργανον And there was one voice in the trumpeting and in the psalm-singing, and in the loud utterance with one voice to give thanks and praise the Lord; and when they raised their voice together with trumpets and cymbals, and instruments of music, and said, Give thanks to the Lord, for it is good, for his mercy endures for ever:—then the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 7:6 ὄργανον And the priests were standing at their watches, and the Levites with instruments of music of the Lord, belonging to king David, to give thanks before the Lord, for his mercy endures for ever, with the hymns of David, by their ministry: and the priests were blowing the trumpets before them, and all Israel standing.
- 2 Chronicles 23:13 ὄργανον And she looked, and, behold, the king stood in his place, and the princes and trumpets were at the entrance, and the princes were round the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded the trumpets, and there were the singers singing with instruments, and singing hymns of praise. and Gotholia tore her robe, and cried, you⌃ surely are plotting against me.
- 2 Chronicles 29:26 ὄργανον And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:27 ὄργανον And Ezekias told them to offer up the whole burnt offering on the altar: and when they began to offer the whole burnt offering, they began to sing to the Lord, and the trumpets accompanied the instruments of David king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 30:21 ὄργανον And the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy; and they continued to sing hymns to the Lord daily, and the priests and the Levites played on instruments to the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 34:12 ὄργανον And the men were faithfully engaged in the works: and over them were superintendents, Jeth and Abdias, Levites of the sons of Merari, and Zacharias and Mosollam, of the sons of Caath, appointed to oversee; and every Levite, and every one that understood how to play on musical instruments.
- Psalms 136:2 ὄργανον We hung our harps on the willows in the midst of it.
- Psalms 150:4 ὄργανον Praise him with timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and the organ.
- Psalms 151:2 ὄργανον My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a lute.
- Amos 5:23 ὄργανον Remove from me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments.
- Amos 6:5 ὄργανον who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as dwelling, not as fleeting pleasures;
About this word
About this word
ὄργανον (órganon), “instrument, tool,” 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 19 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 →