στήριγμα
support, prop
Where this word appears
Every passage where στήριγμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 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 20:19 στήριγμα I am a peaceful one of the strong ones in Israel; but you seek to destroy a city and a mother city in Israel: why do you seek to ruin the inheritance of the Lord?
- 2 Kings 25:11 στήριγμα And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
- Ezra 9:8 στήριγμα And now our God has dealt mercifully with us, so as to leave us to escape, and to give us an establishment in the place of his sanctuary, to enlighten our eyes, and to give a little quickening in our servitude.
- Psalms 71:16 στήριγμα There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: the fruit thereof shall be exalted above Libanus, and they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth.
- Psalms 104:16 στήριγμα Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.
- Ezekiel 4:16 στήριγμα And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in lack; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin:
- Ezekiel 5:16 στήριγμα And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.
- Ezekiel 7:11 στήριγμα pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and that not with tumult, nor with haste.
- Ezekiel 14:13 στήριγμα Son of man, if a land shall sin against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast.
About this word
About this word
στήριγμα (stḗrigma), “support, prop,” 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 9 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 →