πολιορκέω
besiege
Where this word appears
Every passage where πολιορκέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 20 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.
- Joshua 10:29 πολιορκέω And Joshua and all Israel with him departed out of Makeda to Lebna, and besieged Lebna.
- Joshua 10:31 πολιορκέω And Joshua and all Israel with him departed from Lebna to Lachis, and he encamped about it, and besieged it.
- Joshua 10:34 πολιορκέω And Joshua and all Israel with him departed from Lachis to Odollam, and he besieged it and took it.
- Judges 2:18 πολιορκέω And because the Lord raised them up judges, so the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved at their groaning by reason of them that besieged them and afflicted them.
- 2 Samuel 20:15 πολιορκέω And they came and besieged him in Abel and Phermacha: and they raised a mound against the city and it stood close to the wall; and all the people with Joab proposed to throw down the wall.
- 2 Kings 16:5 πολιορκέω Then went up Raasson king of Syria and Phakee son of Romelias king of Israel against Jerusalem to war, and besieged Achaz, but could not prevail against him.
- 2 Kings 17:4 πολιορκέω And the king of the Assyrians found iniquity in Osee, in that he sent messengers to Segor king of Egypt, and brought not a tribute to the king of the Assyrians in that year: and the king of the Assyrians besieged him, and bound him in the prison-house.
- 2 Kings 17:5 πολιορκέω And the king of the Assyrians went up against all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
- 2 Kings 18:9 πολιορκέω And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Ezekias (this is the seventh year of Osee son of Ela king of Israel,) that Salamanassar king of the Assyrians came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
- 2 Kings 24:11 πολιορκέω And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
- Job 17:7 πολιορκέω For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
- Isaiah 1:8 πολιορκέω The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
- Isaiah 7:1 πολιορκέω And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joatham, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, there came up Rasim king of Aram, and Phakee son of Romelias, king of Israel, against Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not take it.
- Isaiah 9:20 πολιορκέω But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.
- Isaiah 27:3 πολιορκέω I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.
- Isaiah 37:8 πολιορκέω So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis.
- Isaiah 37:9 πολιορκέω And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,
- Jeremiah 19:9 πολιορκέω And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.
- Jeremiah 46:1 πολιορκέω And it came to pass in the ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
- Daniel 1:1 πολιορκέω In the third year of the reign of Joakim king of Juda, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.
About this word
About this word
πολιορκέω (poliorkéō), “besiege,” 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 20 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 →