τερέβινθος
terebinth tree
Where this word appears
Every passage where τερέβινθος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Genesis 14:6 τερέβινθος And the Chorrhaeans in the mountains of Seir, to the turpentine tree of Pharan, which is in the desert.
- Genesis 35:4 τερέβινθος And they gave to Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands, and the ear-rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the turpentine tree which is in Secima, and destroyed them to this day.
- Genesis 43:11 τερέβινθος And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts.
- Joshua 17:9 τερέβινθος And the borders shall go down to the valley of Carana southward by the valley of Jariel, (there is a turpentine tree belonging to Ephraim between that and the city of Manasse:) and the borders of Manasse are northward to the brook; and the sea shall be its termination.
- Joshua 24:26 τερέβινθος And he wrote these words in the book of the laws of God: and Joshua took a great stone, and set it up under the oak before the Lord.
- Isaiah 1:30 τερέβινθος For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water.
- Isaiah 6:13 τερέβινθος And yet there shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an acorn when it falls out of its husk.
About this word
About this word
τερέβινθος (terébinthos), “terebinth tree,” 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 7 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 →