πτήσσω
cower, crouch in fear
Where this word appears
Every passage where πτήσσω 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.
- Deuteronomy 1:29 πτήσσω And I said to you, Fear not, neither be you⌃ afraid of them;
- 2 Kings 19:26 πτήσσω And they that lived in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became as grass of the field, or as the green herb, the grass growing on houses, and that which is trodden down by him that stands upon it.
- Job 38:17 πτήσσω And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?
About this word
About this word
πτήσσω (ptḗssō), “cower, crouch in fear,” 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 →
