ψωμός
morsel, crumb
Where this word appears
Every passage where ψωμός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 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.
- Judges 19:5 ψωμός And it came to pass on the fourth day that they rose early, and he stood up to depart; and the father of the damsel said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterwards you⌃ shall go.
- Ruth 2:14 ψωμός And Booz said to her, Now it is time to eat; come here, and you shall eat of the bread, and you shall dip your morsel in the vinegar: and Ruth sat by the side of the reapers: and Booz handed her meal, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left.
- 1 Samuel 28:22 ψωμός And now listen, I pray you, to the voice of your handmaid, and I will set before you a morsel of bread, and eat, and you shall be strengthened, for you will be going on your way.
- 1 Kings 17:11 ψωμός And she went to fetch it; and Eliu cried after her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of the bread that is in your hand.
- Job 22:7 ψωμός Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.
- Job 24:10 ψωμός And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
- Job 31:17 ψωμός And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;
- Psalms 147:6 ψωμός Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold?
- Proverbs 9:13 ψωμός A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to lack a morsel.
- Proverbs 17:1 ψωμός Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.
- Proverbs 23:8 ψωμός for he will vomit it up, and spoil your fair words.
- Proverbs 28:21 ψωμός He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread.
About this word
About this word
ψωμός (psōmós), “morsel, crumb,” 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 12 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 →