τεκταίνω
fashion, build
Where this word appears
Every passage where τεκταίνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 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.
- Psalms 128:3 τεκταίνω The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.
- Proverbs 3:29 τεκταίνω Devise not evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you.
- Proverbs 6:14 τεκταίνω His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
- Proverbs 6:18 τεκταίνω and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —are hateful to God.
- Proverbs 11:27 τεκταίνω He that devises good counsels seeks good favor: but as for him that seeks after evil, evil shall overtake him.
- Proverbs 12:20 τεκταίνω There is deceit in the heart of him that imagines evil; but they that love peace shall rejoice.
- Proverbs 14:22 τεκταίνω They that go astray devise evils: but the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth: but compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good.
- Proverbs 14:22 τεκταίνω They that go astray devise evils: but the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth: but compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good.
- Proverbs 26:24 τεκταίνω A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit.
- Ezekiel 21:36 τεκταίνω
About this word
About this word
τεκταίνω (tektaínō), “fashion, build,” 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 10 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 →
