σκνίψ
gnat, louse
Where this word appears
Every passage where σκνίψ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Exodus 8:12 σκνίψ And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the restriction of the frogs, as Pharao appointed him.
- Exodus 8:13 σκνίψ And the Lord did as Moses said, and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields.
- Exodus 8:13 σκνίψ And the Lord did as Moses said, and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields.
- Exodus 8:14 σκνίψ And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
- Exodus 8:14 σκνίψ And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
- Psalms 104:31 σκνίψ He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts.
About this word
About this word
σκνίψ (skníps), “gnat, louse,” 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 6 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 →
