στένω
groan, sigh
Where this word appears
Every passage where στένω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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 4:12 στένω When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth.
- Genesis 4:14 στένω If you cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from your presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall kill me.
- Job 10:1 στένω Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 30:28 στένω I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
- Proverbs 28:28 στένω In the places of ungodly men the righteous mourn: but in their destruction the righteous shall be multiplied.
- Proverbs 29:2 στένω When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice: but when the ungodly rule, men mourn.
About this word
About this word
στένω (sténō), “groan, sigh,” 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 6 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 →
