στηθύνιον
breast (of offering)
Where this word appears
Every passage where στηθύνιον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 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.
- Exodus 29:26 στηθύνιον And you shall take the breast from the ram of consecration which is Aaron's, and you shall separate it as a separate offering before the Lord, and it shall be to you for a portion.
- Exodus 29:27 στηθύνιον And you shall sanctify the separated breast and the shoulder of removal which has been separated, and which has been removed from the ram of consecration, of the portion of Aaron and of that of his sons.
- Leviticus 7:30 στηθύνιον
- Leviticus 7:31 στηθύνιον
- Leviticus 7:34 στηθύνιον
- Leviticus 8:29 στηθύνιον And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, and on his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
- Leviticus 9:20 στηθύνιον And he put the fat on the breasts, and offered the fat on the altar.
- Leviticus 9:21 στηθύνιον And Aaron separated the breast and the right shoulder as a choice-offering before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 10:14 στηθύνιον And you⌃ shall eat the breast of separation, and the shoulder of the choice-offering in the holy place, you and your sons and your house with you; for it has been given as an ordinance for you and an ordinance for your sons, of the sacrifices of peace-offering of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:15 στηθύνιον They shall bring the shoulder of the choice-offering, and the breast of the separation upon the burnt offerings of the fat, to separate for a separation before the Lord; and it shall be a perpetual ordinance for you and your sons and your daughters with you, as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Numbers 6:20 στηθύνιον And the priest shall present them as an offering before the Lord; it shall be the holy portion for the priest beside the breast of the heave-offering and beside the shoulder of the wave-offering: and afterwards the votary shall drink wine.
- Numbers 18:18 στηθύνιον And the flesh shall be yours, as also the breast of the wave-offering and as the right shoulder, it shall be yours.
About this word
About this word
στηθύνιον (stēthýnion), “breast (of offering),” 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 12 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 →