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Strong's G1685 ἐμβάλλω (emballo)

Emballo means “cast into” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1685 — debach (“sacrifice”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1685
Language Greek
Linked Usages 77
Books 27

Strong's G1685 Quick Answer

Strong's G1685 ἐμβάλλω (emballo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. emballo (em-bal'-lo) v. 1. to throw on 2. (figuratively) subject to (eternal punishment) It has 77 linked Bible usages across 27 books. Visible English usage signals include cast. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
emballo (em-bal'-lo) v. 1. to throw on 2. (figuratively) subject to (eternal punishment)
Usage
77 linked usages
Books
27 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
cast

Meaning and Definition

emballo (em-bal'-lo) v. 1. to throw on 2. (figuratively) subject to (eternal punishment) [from G1722 and G906] KJV: cast into Root(s): G1722, G906

Original Word
ἐμβάλλω
Transliteration
emballo
Derivation
Root: βάλλω R1: 1722 R2: 906
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1685. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's G1685 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render emballo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

cast Luke 12:5

How Strong's G1685 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 66 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1685 (ἐμβάλλω) appears 74 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1685 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1685 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Luke 12:5 KJV

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Strong's G1685 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

66 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 31:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camels’ packs, and sat upon them.

Genesis 37:22 Septuagint / Brenton

And Reuben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hand upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.

Genesis 39:20 Septuagint / Brenton

And his master took Joseph, and cast him into the prison, into the place where the king’s prisoners are kept, there in the prison.

Strong's G1685 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 6:19 Septuagint / Brenton

with commandment that he should carry away the same vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in that place.

Judith 13:10 Septuagint / Brenton

and she put it in her bag of meat: so they twain went together according to their custom unto prayer: and when they passed the camp, they compassed the valley, and went up the mountain of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.

Wisdom of Solomon 19:4 Septuagint / Brenton

For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, And made them forget the things that had already happened, That they might fulfill the punishment which was wanting to their torments:

Strong's G1685 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 98:3 Septuagint / Brenton

Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.

Usage Excerpts

First 77 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1685.

Genesis 31:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camels’ packs, and sat upon them.
Genesis 37:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Reuben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hand upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.
Genesis 39:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his master took Joseph, and cast him into the prison, into the place where the king’s prisoners are kept, there in the prison.
Genesis 40:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For surely I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here I have done nothing, but they have cast me into this pit.
Genesis 43:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we have brought other money with us to buy food; we know not who put the money into our sacks.
Genesis 44:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph charged the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put the money of each in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 44:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And put my silver cup into the sack of the youngest, and the price of his corn. And it was done according to the word of Joseph, as he said.
Exodus 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.
Exodus 10:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord brought in the opposite direction a strong wind from the sea, and took up the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 15:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, and he cast it into the water, and the water was sweetened: there he established to him ordinances and judgments, and there he proved him,
Exodus 16:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden pot, and cast into it one full omer of manna; and thou shalt lay it up before God, to be kept for your generations,
Exodus 25:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimonies which I shall give thee.
Exodus 25:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt set the propitiatory on the ark above, and thou shalt put into the ark the testimonies which I shall give thee.
Exodus 40:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took the testimonies, and put them into the ark; and he put the staffs by the sides of the ark.
Numbers 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers.
Numbers 4:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon staffs.
Numbers 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they minister upon it, and the fire pans, and the fleshhooks, and the cups, and the cover, and all the vessels of the altar; and they shall put on it a blue cover of skins, and shall put in its staffs; and they shall take a purple cloth, and cover the laver and its foot, and they shall put it into a blue cover of skin, and put it on bars.
Numbers 5:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall take pure running water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle of witness, and the priest having taken it shall cast it into the water.
Numbers 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet wool, and they shall cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Numbers 23:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, Thou shalt return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
Numbers 23:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Balaam said to Balak, Whatsoever the Lord shall put into my mouth, shall I not take heed to speak this?
Numbers 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God met Balaam, and put a word into his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
Deuteronomy 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt write upon the tables the words which were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them into the ark.
Deuteronomy 10:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they were, as the Lord commanded me.
Deuteronomy 11:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall store these words in your heart and in your soul, and ye shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and it shall be fixed before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 23:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shouldest go into the vineyard of thy neighbor, thou shalt eat grapes sufficient to satisfy thy desire; but thou mayest not put them into a vessel.
Deuteronomy 26:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that thou shalt take of the first of the fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou shalt put them into a basket, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there.
Deuteronomy 31:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and ye shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to their face.
Joshua 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The people has sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the cursed thing, and put it into their store.
Joshua 18:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua cast the lot for them in Shiloh before the Lord.
1 Kingdoms 18:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul said, Thus shall ye speak to David, The king wants no gift but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the king’s enemies. Now Saul thought to cast him into the hands of the Philistines.
4 Kingdoms 4:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a vine in the field, and gathered of it wild gourds, his garment full; and he cast it into the caldron of pottage, for they knew them not.
4 Kingdoms 4:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Take meal, and cast it into the pot. And Elisha said to his servant Gehazi, Pour out for the people, and let them eat. And there was no longer there any hurtful thing in the pot.
2 Chronicles 24:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the princes and all the people gave, and brought in, and cast into the box until it was filled.
Job 18:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His foot also has been caught in a snare, And let it be entangled in a net.
Psalms 39:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he put a new song into my mouth, Even a hymn to our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall hope in the Lord.
Proverbs 7:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If she should assail thee with flattering words.
Proverbs 11:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that unjustly strikes hands shall not be unpunished: But he that sows righteousness shall receive a faithful reward.
Proverbs 16:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, And he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless.
Proverbs 22:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou lay them to heart, They shall also gladden thee on thy lips,
Isaiah 28:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore thus saith the Lord, even the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Zion a costly stone, a choice, a cornerstone, a precious stone, for its foundations; and he that believes on him shall by no means be ashamed.
Isaiah 37:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.
Isaiah 37:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and have cast their idols into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.
Isaiah 37:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thy wrath wherewith thou hast been enraged, and thy rancor has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Isaiah 51:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.
Jeremiah 11:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered anymore.
Jeremiah 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he smote him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will bring upon thee a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
Jeremiah 34:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, saith the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.
Jeremiah 44:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremiah continued in the court of the prison.
Ezekiel 4:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and bread corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side.
Ezekiel 24:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,
Ezekiel 26:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea.
Daniel 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whosoever shall not fall down and worship, in the same hour he shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall not fall down and worship the golden image, shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then if ye be ready, whensoever ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, in the same hour ye shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?
Daniel 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he commanded mighty men to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king’s servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;
Daniel 6:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All who preside over thy kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statute and to confirm a decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.
Daniel 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came and said to the king, O king, hast thou not made a decree, that whatsoever man shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? And the king said, The word is true, and the decree of the Medes and Persians shall not pass.
Daniel 6:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. But the king said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
Daniel 6:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, and their children, and their wives: and they reached not the bottom of the den before the lions had the mastery of them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.
Amos 4:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.
Jonah 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jonah said to them, Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Haggai 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When ye cast into the corn bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.
Zechariah 11:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace, and I will see if it is good metal, as I was proved for their sakes. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the furnace in the house of the Lord.
Luke 12:5 New Testament, KJV
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
1 Esdras 6:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
with commandment that he should carry away the same vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in that place.
Judith 13:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and she put it in her bag of meat: so they twain went together according to their custom unto prayer: and when they passed the camp, they compassed the valley, and went up the mountain of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.
Wisdom of Solomon 19:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, And made them forget the things that had already happened, That they might fulfill the punishment which was wanting to their torments:
Wisdom of Sirach 28:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A sinful man disquieteth friends, And maketh debate among them that be at peace.
Daniel 1:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Daniel 1:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 152 1:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 152 1:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
1 Enoch 98:3 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1685, grouped by book.

Genesis 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G1685 FAQ

What does emballo (ἐμβάλλω) mean?

Emballo (Strong's G1685) is a Greek word most simply glossed "cast into". emballo (em-bal'-lo) v. 1. to throw on 2. (figuratively) subject to (eternal punishment)

How many times is emballo (ἐμβάλλω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 77 linked usages for Strong's G1685 across 27 books.

Where can I study emballo (ἐμβάλλω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1685 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate emballo (ἐμβάλλω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cast. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1685 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 66 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1685, with linked reader references where each row is available.