πέταλον
leaf, thin plate
Where this word appears
Every passage where πέταλον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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 28:36 πέταλον And for the sons of Aaron you shall make tunics and girdles, and you shall make for them tires for honor and glory.
- Exodus 29:6 πέταλον And you shall put the mitre on his head; and you shall put the plate, even the Holiness, on the mitre.
- Exodus 36:10 πέταλον And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven work;
- Exodus 36:37 πέταλον and their girdles of fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet spun, the work of an embroiderer, according as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:9 πέταλον And he put the mitre on his head, and put upon the mitre in front the golden plate, the most holy thing, as the Lord commanded Moses.
- 1 Kings 6:32 πέταλον
- 1 Kings 6:35 πέταλον being carved with cherubs, and there were palm-trees and open flower-leaves, and it was overlaid with gold gilt upon the engraving.
About this word
About this word
πέταλον (pétalon), “leaf, thin plate,” 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 7 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 →
