στέλεχος
trunk, stump
Where this word appears
Every passage where στέλεχος 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 49:21 στέλεχος Nephthalim is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit.
- Exodus 15:27 στέλεχος And they came to Aelim, and there were there twelve fountains of water, and seventy stems of palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.
- Numbers 33:9 στέλεχος And they departed from Picriae, and came to Aelim; and in Aelim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-trees, and they encamped there by the water.
- Job 14:8 στέλεχος For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
- Job 29:18 στέλεχος And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while.
- Song of Solomon 3:6 στέλεχος Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?
- Jeremiah 17:8 στέλεχος And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.
- Ezekiel 19:11 στέλεχος And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of other trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.
- Ezekiel 31:12 στέλεχος And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
- Ezekiel 31:13 στέλεχος All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs:
About this word
About this word
στέλεχος (stélechos), “trunk, stump,” 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 →
