σχοίνισμα
measured portion, allotment
Where this word appears
Every passage where σχοίνισμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:9 σχοίνισμα And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.
- Joshua 17:14 σχοίνισμα And the sons of Joseph answered Joshua, saying, Therefore have you caused us to inherit one inheritance, and one line? whereas I am a great people, and God has blessed me.
- 2 Samuel 8:2 σχοίνισμα And David struck Moab, and measured them out with lines, having laid them down on the ground: and there were two lines for slaying, and two lines he kept alive: and Moab became servants to David, yielding tribute.
- 2 Samuel 8:2 σχοίνισμα And David struck Moab, and measured them out with lines, having laid them down on the ground: and there were two lines for slaying, and two lines he kept alive: and Moab became servants to David, yielding tribute.
- 1 Kings 4:13 σχοίνισμα The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him fell the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.
- 1 Chronicles 16:18 σχοίνισμα saying, To you will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:
- Psalms 104:11 σχοίνισμα saying To you will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:
- Isaiah 54:2 σχοίνισμα Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains: fix the pins, spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;
- Ezekiel 47:13 σχοίνισμα Thus says the Lord God; You⌃ shall inherit these borders of the land; they are given by lot to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
- Zephaniah 2:5 σχοίνισμα Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbors of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Chanaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of your dwelling-place.
- Zephaniah 2:7 σχοίνισμα And the sea cost shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity.
- Zechariah 11:7 σχοίνισμα And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Chanaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.
- Zechariah 11:14 σχοίνισμα And I cast away my second rod, even Line, that I might break the possession between Juda and Israel.
About this word
About this word
σχοίνισμα (schoínisma), “measured portion, allotment,” 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 13 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 →