πειρατήριον
trial, band of raiders
Where this word appears
Every passage where πειρατήριον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 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.
- Genesis 49:19 πειρατήριον Gad, a plundering troop shall plunder him; but he shall plunder him, pursuing him closely.
- Job 7:1 πειρατήριον Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
- Job 10:17 πειρατήριον renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
- Job 19:12 πειρατήριον His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.
- Psalms 17:30 πειρατήριον As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him.
About this word
About this word
πειρατήριον (peiratḗrion), “trial, band of raiders,” 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 5 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 →
