πέλεκυς
axe
Where this word appears
Every passage where πέλεκυς appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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.
- 1 Kings 6:7 πέλεκυς And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.
- Psalms 73:6 πέλεκυς they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
- Jeremiah 22:7 πέλεκυς and I will bring upon you a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
About this word
About this word
πέλεκυς (pélekys), “axe,” 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 3 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 →
