σφῦρα
hammer, mallet
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where σφῦρα appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 7 total occurrences). 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.
- Judges 4:21 σφῦρα And Jael the wife of Chaber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.
- Judges 5:26 σφῦρα She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, and her right to the hand workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and struck him; she nailed through his temples.
- 1 Kings 6:7 σφῦρα And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.
- Job 41:21 σφῦρα His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay.
- Jeremiah 27:23 σφῦρα How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
About this word
About this word
σφῦρα (sphŷra), “hammer, mallet,” 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 →
