στρουθός
sparrow, ostrich
Where this word appears
Every passage where στρουθός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 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.
- Leviticus 11:16 στρουθός and every raven, and the birds like it, and the hawk and his like,
- Deuteronomy 14:15 στρουθός and the sparrow, and the owl, and the cormorant,
- Job 30:29 στρουθός I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
- Proverbs 26:2 στρουθός As birds and sparrows fly, so a curse shall not come upon any one without a cause.
- Isaiah 34:13 στρουθός And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.
- Isaiah 43:20 στρουθός the beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,
- Jeremiah 10:22 στρουθός Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.
- Jeremiah 30:28 στρουθός CONCERNING KEDAR THE QUEEN OF THE PALACE, WHOM NABUCHODONOSOR KING OF BABYLON SMOTE, thus says the Lord; Arise you⌃, and go up to Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem.
About this word
About this word
στρουθός (strouthós), “sparrow, ostrich,” 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 8 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 →