προφασίζω
make excuses, pretend
Where this word appears
Every passage where προφασίζω 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.
- 2 Kings 5:7 προφασίζω And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his garments, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man of his leprosy? consider, however, I pray you, and see that this man seeks an occasion against me.
- Psalms 140:4 προφασίζω Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with those who work iniquity. Let me not unite with their choice ones.
- Proverbs 22:13 προφασίζω The sluggard makes excuses, and says, There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
About this word
About this word
προφασίζω (prophasízō), “make excuses, pretend,” 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 →
