φάρυγξ
throat, gullet
Where this word appears
Every passage where φάρυγξ 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.
- 1 Samuel 17:15 φάρυγξ And David departed and returned from Saul, to feed his father’s sheep in Bethleem;
- Proverbs 5:3 φάρυγξ for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:
- Proverbs 8:7 φάρυγξ For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me.
- Proverbs 24:13 φάρυγξ My son, eat honey, for the honeycomb is good, that your throat may be sweetened.
- Song of Solomon 5:16 φάρυγξ His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 2:25 φάρυγξ Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them.
- Lamentations 4:4 φάρυγξ DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it to them.
About this word
About this word
φάρυγξ (phárynx), “throat, gullet,” 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 →
