στηλόω
set up as a pillar
Where this word appears
Every passage where στηλόω 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.
- 2 Samuel 1:19 στηλόω Set up a pillar, O Israel, for the slain that died upon your high places: how are the mighty fallen!
- 2 Samuel 18:17 στηλόω And he took Abessalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the wood, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every man to his tent.
- 2 Samuel 18:18 στηλόω Now Abessalom while yet alive had taken and set up for himself the pillar near which he was taken, and set it up so as to have the pillar in the king's dale; for he said he had no son to keep his name in remembrance: and he called the pillar, Abessalom's hand, until this day.
- 2 Samuel 18:30 στηλόω And the king said, Turn aside, stand still here. And he turned aside, and stood.
- 2 Samuel 23:12 στηλόω And he stood firm in the midst of the portion, and rescued it, and struck the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a great deliverance.
- 2 Kings 17:10 στηλόω and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.
- Lamentations 3:12 στηλόω HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
About this word
About this word
στηλόω (stēlóō), “set up as a pillar,” 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 →