σχίζα
splinter, kindling stick
Where this word appears
Every passage where σχίζα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 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.
- 1 Samuel 20:20 σχίζα And I will shoot three arrows, aiming them at a mark.
- 1 Samuel 20:21 σχίζα And behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go find me the arrow.
- 1 Samuel 20:21 σχίζα And behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go find me the arrow.
- 1 Samuel 20:22 σχίζα If I should expressly say to the lad, The arrow is here, and on this side of you, take it; then come, for it is well with you, and there is no reason for fear, as the Lord lives: but if I should say thus to the young man, The arrow is on that side of you, and beyond; go, for the Lord has sent you away.
- 1 Samuel 20:36 σχίζα And he said to the boy, Run, find me the arrows which I shoot: and the boy ran, and Jonathan shot an arrow, and sent it beyond him.
- 1 Samuel 20:36 σχίζα And he said to the boy, Run, find me the arrows which I shoot: and the boy ran, and Jonathan shot an arrow, and sent it beyond him.
- 1 Samuel 20:37 σχίζα And the boy came to the place where the arrow was which Jonathan shot; and Jonathan cried out after the lad, and said, The arrow is on that side of you and beyond you.
- 1 Samuel 20:37 σχίζα And the boy came to the place where the arrow was which Jonathan shot; and Jonathan cried out after the lad, and said, The arrow is on that side of you and beyond you.
- 1 Samuel 20:38 σχίζα And Jonathan cried out after his boy, saying, Make all speed, and stay not. And Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and brought the arrows to his master.
About this word
About this word
σχίζα (schíza), “splinter, kindling stick,” 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 9 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 →