σχοῖνος
reed, rush; cord
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where σχοῖνος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 5 total occurrences). 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.
- Psalms 138:3 σχοῖνος You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.
- Jeremiah 8:8 σχοῖνος How will you⌃ say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.
- Jeremiah 18:15 σχοῖνος For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, leaving the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;
About this word
About this word
σχοῖνος (schoînos), “reed, rush; cord,” 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 5 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 →
