σαπρία
rottenness, decay
Where this word appears
Every passage where σαπρία 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 2:9 σαπρία And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.
- Job 7:5 σαπρία And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
- Job 8:16 σαπρία For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
- Job 17:14 σαπρία I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.
- Job 21:26 σαπρία But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
- Job 25:6 σαπρία But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.
- Joel 2:20 σαπρία And I will chase away from you the northern adversary, and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his ill savor shall come up, and his stink come up, because he has wrought great things.
About this word
About this word
σαπρία (sapría), “rottenness, decay,” 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 →