πυρράκης
ruddy, red-haired
Where this word appears
Every passage where πυρράκης 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.
- Genesis 25:25 πυρράκης And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau.
- 1 Samuel 16:12 πυρράκης And he sent and fetched him: and he was ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and very goodly to behold. And the Lord said to Samuel, Arise, and anoint David, for he is good.
- 1 Samuel 17:22 πυρράκης And David deposited his burden in the hand of a keeper, and ran to the line, and went and asked his brethren how they Were.
About this word
About this word
πυρράκης (pyrrákēs), “ruddy, red-haired,” 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 →
