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Noun skorpios (scorpion) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Luke
10: 19 | See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions (skorpios), and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. |
11: 12 | Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion (skorpios)? |
Revelation
9: 3 | Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions (skorpios) of the earth. |
9: 5 | They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion (skorpios) when it stings someone. |
9: 10 | They have tails like scorpions (skorpios), with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months. |
Deuteronomy (LXX)
8: 15 | who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent, and scorpion (skorpios), and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock: |
1 Kings (LXX: 3 Kings)
12: 11 | And whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I also will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions (skorpios). |
12: 14 | And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions (skorpios). |
12: 24r | 24r And Roboam rejected their counsel, and it pleased him not: and he sent and brought in those who had been brought up with him; and he said to them, Thus and thus has the people sent to me to say: and they that had been brought up with him said, Thus shalt thou speak to the people, saying, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins; my father scourged you with whips, but I will rule you with scorpions (skorpios). |
2 Chronicles (LXX)
10: 11 | And whereas my father chastised you with a heavy yoke, I will also add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, and I will chastise you with scorpions (skorpios). |
10: 14 | and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions (skorpios). |
Ezekiel (LXX)
2: 6 | And thou, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will rise up against thee round about, and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions (skorpios)): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house. |
Sirach (LXX)
26: 7 | An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion (skorpios). |
39: 30 | Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions (skorpios), serpents, and the sword punishing the wicked to destruction. |
Psalms of Solomon (LXX)
11: 10 | to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion (skorpios)-fashion. |
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