σκέπης
shelter, covering
Where this word appears
Every passage where σκέπης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 19 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 25:20 σκέπης And it came to pass when she had mounted her ass and was going down by the covert of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down to meet her, and she met them.
- Psalms 16:8 σκέπης Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist your right hand: you shall screen me by the covering of your wings,
- Psalms 35:8 σκέπης They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall cause them to drink of the full stream of your delights.
- Psalms 60:5 σκέπης For you, o God, have heard my prayers; you have given an inheritance to them that fear your name.
- Psalms 62:8 σκέπης My soul has kept very close behind you: your right hand has upheld me.
- Psalms 90:1 σκέπης He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.
- Psalms 104:39 σκέπης He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night.
- Psalms 120:5 σκέπης The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand.
- Song of Solomon 2:14 σκέπης You are my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: show me your face, and cause me to hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is beautiful.
- Isaiah 4:6 σκέπης And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.
- Isaiah 16:3 σκέπης take farther counsel, and continually make you a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not you led captive.
- Isaiah 16:4 σκέπης The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with you; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for your alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.
- Isaiah 25:4 σκέπης For you have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: you shall deliver them from wicked men: you have been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.
- Isaiah 25:4 σκέπης For you have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: you shall deliver them from wicked men: you have been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.
- Isaiah 28:2 σκέπης Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.
- Isaiah 30:3 σκέπης For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, and there shall be a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.
- Isaiah 49:2 σκέπης and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;
- Ezekiel 31:12 σκέπης And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
- Ezekiel 31:17 σκέπης For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that lived under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.
About this word
About this word
σκέπης (sképēs), “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 19 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 →