σπαρτίον
cord, rope
Where this word appears
Every passage where σπαρτίον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 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 14:23 σπαρτίον that I will not take from all your goods from a string to a shoe-latchet, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich.
- Joshua 2:18 σπαρτίον Behold, we shall enter into a part of the city, and you shall set a sign; you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window, by which you have let us down, and you shall bring in to yourself, into your house, your father, and your mother, and your brethren, and all the family of your father.
- Judges 16:12 σπαρτίον And Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the liers in wait came out of the chamber, and she said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson: and he broke them off his arms like a thread.
- Job 38:5 σπαρτίον who set the measures of it, if you know? or who stretched a line upon it?
- Ecclesiastes 4:12 σπαρτίον And if one should prevail against him, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord shall not be quickly broken.
- Song of Solomon 4:3 σπαρτίον Your lips are as a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is your cheek without your veil.
- Song of Solomon 6:7 σπαρτίον There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
- Isaiah 34:11 σπαρτίον and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.
- Jeremiah 52:21 σπαρτίον And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it all round was four fingers.
- Ezekiel 40:3 σπαρτίον And he brought me in there, and, behold, there was a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder's line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate.
About this word
About this word
σπαρτίον (spartíon), “cord, rope,” 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 10 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 →