ῥάπτω
sew, stitch together
Where this word appears
Every passage where ῥάπτω 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 3:7 ῥάπτω And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.
- Job 16:15 ῥάπτω They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might.
- Ecclesiastes 3:7 ῥάπτω a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;
About this word
About this word
ῥάπτω (rháptō), “sew, stitch together,” 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 →
