σκέπη
shelter, covering
Where this word appears
Every passage where σκέπη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 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.
- Genesis 19:8 σκέπη But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do you⌃ use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my roof.
- Exodus 26:7 σκέπη And you shall make for a covering of the tabernacle skins with the hair on, you shall make them eleven skins.
- Esther 4:14 σκέπη For if you shall refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows, if you have been made queen for this very occasion?
- Job 21:28 σκέπη so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?
- Job 24:8 σκέπη They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
- Job 37:8 σκέπη And the wild beasts come in under the covert, and rest in their lair.
- Hosea 4:13 σκέπη They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.
- Hosea 14:8 σκέπη They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus.
About this word
About this word
σκέπη (sképē), “shelter, covering,” 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 8 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 →