σφηκία
wasps' nest, swarm
Where this word appears
Every passage where σφηκία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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 23:28 σφηκία And I will send hornets before you, and you shall cast out the Amorites and the Evites, and the Chananites and the Chettites from you.
- Deuteronomy 7:20 σφηκία And the Lord your God shall send against them the hornets, until they that are left and they that are hidden from you be utterly destroyed.
- Joshua 24:12 σφηκία And he sent forth the hornet before you; and he drove them out from before you, even twelve kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow.
About this word
About this word
σφηκία (sphēkía), “wasps' nest, swarm,” 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 3 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 →
