στρωμνή
bed, couch
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where στρωμνή appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 9 total occurrences). 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 49:4 στρωμνή You were insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled the couch, whereupon you went up.
- Esther 1:6 στρωμνή which was adorned with hangings of fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of Parian marble and stone: there were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of Parian stone, and open-worked coverings variously flowered, having roses worked round about;
- Job 17:13 στρωμνή For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
- Job 41:22 στρωμνή He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
- Psalms 6:7 στρωμνή My eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies.
- Psalms 62:7 στρωμνή For you have been my helper, and in the shelter of your wings will I rejoice.
- Ezekiel 27:7 στρωμνή Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honor upon you, and to clothe you with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became your coverings.
- Amos 6:4 στρωμνή who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;
About this word
About this word
στρωμνή (strōmnḗ), “bed, couch,” 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 →