προμαχών
rampart, battlement
Where this word appears
Every passage where προμαχών 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.
- Jeremiah 5:10 προμαχών Go up upon her battlements, and break them down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord's.
- Jeremiah 40:4 προμαχών For thus says the Lord concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the king of Juda, which have been pulled down for mounds and fortifications,
- Ezekiel 4:2 προμαχών And you shall besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.
About this word
About this word
προμαχών (promachṓn), “rampart, battlement,” 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 →
