τέρπω
delight, gladden
Where this word appears
Every passage where τέρπω 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.
- Job 39:13 τέρπω The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice,
- Psalms 34:9 τέρπω But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation.
- Psalms 64:9 τέρπω You have visited the earth, and saturated it; you have abundantly enriched it. The river of God is filled with water; you have prepared their food, for thus is the preparation of it.
- Psalms 67:4 τέρπω Sing to God, sing praises to his name: make a way for him that rides upon the west (the Lord is his name) and exult before him. They shall be troubled before the face of him,
- Psalms 118:14 τέρπω I have delighted in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
- Proverbs 27:9 τέρπω The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.
- Zechariah 2:14 τέρπω
About this word
About this word
τέρπω (térpō), “delight, gladden,” 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 →
