θῦμα
sacrifice, victim
Where this word appears
Every passage where θῦμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 15 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 43:16 θῦμα And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and kill beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon.
- Exodus 29:28 θῦμα And it shall be a perpetual statute of the children of Israel to Aaron and his sons, for this is a separate offering; and it shall be a special offering from the children of Israel, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel, a special offering to the Lord.
- Exodus 34:15 θῦμα lest at any time you make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call you, and you should eat of their feasts,
- Exodus 34:25 θῦμα You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifices with leaven, neither shall the sacrifices of the feast of the passover remain till the morning.
- Deuteronomy 18:3 θῦμα And this is the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and you shall give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:
- 1 Samuel 25:11 θῦμα And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my beasts that I have slain for my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are?
- 2 Samuel 6:13 θῦμα And there were with him bearing the ark seven bands, and for a sacrifice a calf and lambs.
- 2 Kings 10:24 θῦμα And he went in to offer sacrifices and whole burnt offerings; and Ju set for himself eighty men without, and said, Every man who shall escape of the men whom I bring into your hand, the life of him that spares him shall go for his life.
- 2 Chronicles 7:4 θῦμα And the king and all the people were offering sacrifices before the Lord.
- Proverbs 9:2 θῦμα She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine in a bowl, and prepared her table.
- Proverbs 17:1 θῦμα Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife.
- Ezekiel 40:41 θῦμα Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.
- Ezekiel 40:41 θῦμα Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.
- Ezekiel 40:42 θῦμα And there were four tables of hewn stone for whole burnt offerings, the breadth of them was a cubit and a half, and the length of them two cubits and a half, and their height was a cubit: on them they shall place the instruments with which they kill there the whole burnt offerings and the victims.
- Ezekiel 46:24 θῦμα And he said to me, These are the cooks' houses, where they that serve the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.
About this word
About this word
θῦμα (thŷma), “sacrifice, victim,” 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 15 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 →