σκυθρωπάζω
look gloomy, be sad
Where this word appears
Every passage where σκυθρωπάζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Psalms 34:14 σκυθρωπάζω I behaved agreeably towards them as if it had been our neighbor or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.
- Psalms 37:7 σκυθρωπάζω For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.
- Psalms 41:10 σκυθρωπάζω While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?
- Psalms 42:2 σκυθρωπάζω For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?
- Proverbs 15:13 σκυθρωπάζω When the heart rejoices the countenance is cheerful; but when it is in sorrow, the countenance is sad.
- Jeremiah 19:8 σκυθρωπάζω And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.
- Jeremiah 27:13 σκυθρωπάζω by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
About this word
About this word
σκυθρωπάζω (skythrōpázō), “look gloomy, be sad,” 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 7 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 →
