ὀρτυγομήτρα
quail
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀρτυγομήτρα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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 16:13 ὀρτυγομήτρα And it was evening, and quails came up and covered the camp:
- Numbers 11:31 ὀρτυγομήτρα And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.
- Numbers 11:32 ὀρτυγομήτρα And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered least, gathered ten measures; and they refreshed themselves round about the camp.
- Psalms 104:40 ὀρτυγομήτρα They asked, and the quail came, and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
About this word
About this word
ὀρτυγομήτρα (ortygomḗtra), “quail,” 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 4 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 →
