ῥίς
nose, nostril
Where this word appears
Every passage where ῥίς appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Job 27:3 ῥίς verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,
- Job 40:24 ῥίς And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
- Job 40:25 ῥίς And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
- Psalms 113:14 ῥίς
- Proverbs 11:22 ῥίς As an ornament in a swine's snout, so is beauty to an ill-minded woman.
- Song of Solomon 7:9 ῥίς and your throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.
- Isaiah 37:29 ῥίς And your wrath wherewith you have been enraged, and your rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and will turn you back by the way by which you came.
About this word
About this word
ῥίς (rhís), “nose, nostril,” 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 7 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 →
