ὑποσκελίζω
trip up, supplant
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὑποσκελίζω 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.
- Psalms 16:13 ὑποσκελίζω Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down: deliver my soul from the ungodly: draw your sword,
- Psalms 36:31 ὑποσκελίζω The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not slide.
- Psalms 139:5 ὑποσκελίζω The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling block for me near the path. Pause.
- Proverbs 10:8 ὑποσκελίζω A wise man in heart will receive commandments; but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.
- Proverbs 26:18 ὑποσκελίζω As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;
- Proverbs 29:25 ὑποσκελίζω they fearing and reverencing men unreasonably have been overthrown, but he that trusts in the Lord shall rejoice. Ungodliness causes a man to stumble: but he that trusts in his master shall be safe.
- Jeremiah 23:12 ὑποσκελίζω Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.
About this word
About this word
ὑποσκελίζω (hyposkelízō), “trip up, supplant,” 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 →