Amynomai means “defend” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H292 — achinadab (“Ahinadab”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G292 αμύνομαι (amunomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. amunomai (am-oo'-nom-ai) v. 1. to ward off (for oneself), i.e. protect [middle voice of a primary verb] It has 11 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include defended. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
amunomai (am-oo'-nom-ai) v. 1. to ward off (for oneself), i.e. protect [middle voice of a primary verb] KJV: defend
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G292. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to defend
Usage: ἀμύνω [in LXX (mid.): Jos.10:13 (נָקַם), נָקַם), Psa.118:10-12 מוּל hi.), Isa.59:16 (יָשַׁע hi.), Wis.11:3, al. ;] to ward off, etc. Mid. __(a) to defend oneself against; __(b) to requite; __(with) = act., to defend, assist (Isa, l.with): with accusative of person(s), Act.7:24 (MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render amunomai, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. 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.
Strong's G292 (αμύνομαι) appears 10 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
7 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the sun and the moon stood still, Until God executed vengeance on their enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; it did not proceed to set till the end of one day.
And Haman related the events that had befallen him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends: and his friends and his wife said to him, If Mordecai be of the race of the Jews, and thou hast begun to be humbled before him, thou wilt assuredly fall, and thou wilt not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.
All nations compassed me about: But in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
As it behooved them to come, that are resolute to stand out against such things as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.
and assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G292.
And the sun and the moon stood still, Until God executed vengeance on their enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; it did not proceed to set till the end of one day.
And Haman related the events that had befallen him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends: and his friends and his wife said to him, If Mordecai be of the race of the Jews, and thou hast begun to be humbled before him, thou wilt assuredly fall, and thou wilt not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.
All nations compassed me about: But in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.
They completely compassed me about: But in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.
They compassed me about as bees do a honeycomb, And they burst into flame as fire among thorns: But in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.
And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and established them with his mercy.
Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
As it behooved them to come, that are resolute to stand out against such things as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.
and assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G292, grouped by book.
Amynomai (Strong's G292) is a Greek word most simply glossed "defend". amunomai (am-oo'-nom-ai) v. 1. to ward off (for oneself), i.e. protect [middle voice of a primary verb]
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G292 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G292 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as defended. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 7 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G292, with linked reader references where each row is available.