ὀρνίθιον
small bird
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀρνίθιον 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.
- Leviticus 14:4 ὀρνίθιον And the priest shall give directions, and they shall take for him that is cleansed two clean live birds, and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.
- Leviticus 14:5 ὀρνίθιον And the priest shall give direction, and they shall kill one bird over an earthen vessel over running water.
- Leviticus 14:6 ὀρνίθιον And as for the living bird he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird into the blood of the bird that was slain over running water.
- Leviticus 14:6 ὀρνίθιον And as for the living bird he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird into the blood of the bird that was slain over running water.
- Leviticus 14:6 ὀρνίθιον And as for the living bird he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird into the blood of the bird that was slain over running water.
- Leviticus 14:7 ὀρνίθιον And he shall sprinkle seven times upon him that was cleansed of his leprosy, and he shall be clean; and he shall let go the living bird into the field.
- Leviticus 14:49 ὀρνίθιον And he shall take to purify the house two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.
- Leviticus 14:50 ὀρνίθιον And he shall kill one bird in an earthen vessel over running water.
- Leviticus 14:51 ὀρνίθιον And he shall take the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and the living bird; and shall dip it into the blood of the bird slain over running water, and with them he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
- Leviticus 14:51 ὀρνίθιον And he shall take the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and the living bird; and shall dip it into the blood of the bird slain over running water, and with them he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
- Leviticus 14:52 ὀρνίθιον and he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the spun scarlet.
- Leviticus 14:52 ὀρνίθιον and he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the spun scarlet.
- Leviticus 14:53 ὀρνίθιον And he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the field, and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
About this word
About this word
ὀρνίθιον (orníthion), “small bird,” 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 →