τείνω
stretch, draw tight
Where this word appears
Every passage where τείνω 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.
- 1 Chronicles 5:18 τείνω The sons of Ruben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasse, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, were forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.
- 1 Chronicles 8:40 τείνω And the sons of Aelam were mighty men, bending the bow, and multiplying sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
- Esther 1:6 τείνω 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;
- Proverbs 7:16 τείνω I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
- Jeremiah 27:14 τείνω Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you⌃ that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
- Jeremiah 28:3 τείνω Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on: and spare you⌃ not her young men, but destroy you⌃ all her host.
- Jeremiah 28:3 τείνω Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on: and spare you⌃ not her young men, but destroy you⌃ all her host.
- Ezekiel 30:22 τείνω Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and will strike down his sword out of his hand.
About this word
About this word
τείνω (teínō), “stretch, draw tight,” 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 →