παράταξις
battle array
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where παράταξις appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 46 total occurrences). 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.
- Numbers 31:5 παράταξις And they numbered of the thousands of Israel a thousand of each tribe, twelve thousands; these were armed for war.
- Judges 6:26 παράταξις And you shall build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this Maozi in the orderingit, and you shall take the second bullock, and shall offer up whole burnt offerings with the wood of the grove, which you shall destroy.
- 1 Samuel 4:2 παράταξις And the Philistines prepare to fight with Israel, and the battle was turned against them; and the men of Israel fell before the Philistines, and there were struck in the battle in the field four thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 5:18 παράταξις The sons of Ruben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasse, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, were forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.
- 2 Chronicles 20:15 παράταξις and he said, Hear you⌃, all Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and king Josaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, even you, Fear not, neither be alarmed, before all this great multitude; for the battle is not years, but God's.
- Ezra 21:14 παράταξις
- Psalms 143:1 παράταξις Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.
- Isaiah 22:6 παράταξις And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there was a gathering for battle.
- Ezekiel 17:21 παράταξις In every battle of his they shall fall by the sword, and I will scatter his remnant to every wind: and you⌃ shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.
- Zechariah 14:3 παράταξις And the Lord shall go forth, and fight with those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of war.
About this word
About this word
παράταξις (parátaxis), “battle array,” 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 46 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 →
