φύρομαι
be mixed, defiled
Where this word appears
Every passage where φύρομαι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Job 7:5 φύρομαι And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
- Job 30:14 φύρομαι And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
- Job 39:30 φύρομαι And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.
- Isaiah 14:19 φύρομαι But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcass, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.
- Ezekiel 16:6 φύρομαι And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, Let there be life out of your blood:
- Ezekiel 16:22 φύρομαι This is beyond all your fornication, and you did not remember your infancy, when you were naked and bare, and did live though defiled in your blood.
About this word
About this word
φύρομαι (phýromai), “be mixed, defiled,” 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 6 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 →
