πεδίον
plain, field
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where πεδίον appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 129 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.
- Genesis 4:8 πεδίον And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.
- Exodus 1:14 πεδίον And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.
- Leviticus 14:7 πεδίον 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.
- Numbers 19:16 πεδίον And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone, or sepulchre, shall be unclean seven days.
- Deuteronomy 1:7 πεδίον Turn you⌃ and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Joshua 5:10 πεδίον And the children of Israel kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, to the westward of Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain.
- 1 Samuel 14:14 πεδίον And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor-bearer effected was twenty men, with darts and slings, and pebbles of the field.
- 2 Samuel 17:8 πεδίον And Chusi said, You know your father and his men, that they are very mighty, and bitter in their spirit, as a bereaved bear in the field, and as a wild boar in the plain: and your father is a man of war, and will not give the people rest.
- 1 Kings 11:29 πεδίον And it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went forth from Jerusalem, and Achia the Selonite the prophet found him in the way, and caused him to turn aside out of the way: and Achia was clad with a new garment, and they two were alone in the field.
- 1 Chronicles 1:34 πεδίον And Abraam begot Isaac: and the sons of Isaac were Jacob, and Esau.
- 2 Chronicles 26:23 πεδίον And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial place of the kings, for they said, He is a leper; and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.
- Ezra 16:2 πεδίον
- Job 39:10 πεδίον And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plow furrows for you in the plain?
- Psalms 8:8 πεδίον the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the creatures passing through the paths of the sea.
- Proverbs 27:25 πεδίον Take care of the herbage in the field, and you shall cut grass, and gather the mountain hay;
- Song of Solomon 2:1 πεδίον I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.
- Isaiah 16:8 πεδίον The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample you⌃ her vines, even to Jazer: you⌃ shall not come together; wander you⌃ in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.
- Jeremiah 9:21 πεδίον For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.
- Ezekiel 3:22 πεδίον And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shall you be spoken to.
- Daniel 3:1 πεδίον In his eighteenth year Nabuchodonosor the king made a golden image, its height was sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits: and he set it up in the plain of Deira, in the province of Babylon.
- Hosea 12:13 πεδίον And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
- Joel 1:10 πεδίον For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
- Amos 1:5 πεδίον And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Charrhan: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, says the Lord.
- Obadiah 1:19 πεδίον And they that dwell in the south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.
- Micah 4:10 πεδίον Be in pain, and strengthen yourself, and draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in travail: for now you shall go forth out of the city, and shall lodge in the plain, and shall reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord your God deliver you, and thence shall he redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.
- Habakkuk 3:17 πεδίον For though the fig tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;
- Zechariah 12:11 πεδίον In that day the lamentation in Jerusalem shall be very great, as the mourning for the pomegranate grove cut down in the plain.
About this word
About this word
πεδίον (pedíon), “plain, field,” 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 129 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 →