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Strong's G4078 πήγνυμι (pegnymi)

Pegnymi means “pitch” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4078 — madday (“sufficiently”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4078
Language Greek
Linked Usages 36
Books 17

Strong's G4078 Quick Answer

Strong's G4078 πήγνυμι (pegnumi) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pegnumi (payg'-noo-mee) v. 1. to fix 2. (specially) to set up (a tent) It has 36 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include which. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
pegnumi (payg'-noo-mee) v. 1. to fix 2. (specially) to set up (a tent)
Usage
36 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
which

Meaning and Definition

pegnumi (payg'-noo-mee) v. 1. to fix 2. (specially) to set up (a tent) [a prolonged form of a primary verb (which in its simpler form occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses)] KJV: pitch

Original Word
πήγνυμι
Transliteration
pegnumi
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4078. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to set up

Usage: πήγνυμι [in LXX chiefly for נָטָה, also for תָּקַע, etc. ;] to make fast, to fix; of tents, to pitch: Heb.8:2 (cf. προσ-πήγνυμι).† (AS)

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How Strong's G4078 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pegnumi, 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.

which Hebrews 8:2

How Strong's G4078 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 27 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.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4078 (πήγνυμι) appears 36 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4078 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 G4078 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Hebrews 8:2 KJV

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Strong's G4078 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

27 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 26:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And he built there an altar, and called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well in the Valley of Gerar.

Genesis 31:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And Laban overtook Jacob; and Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban stationed his brothers in the Mount Gilead.

Genesis 35:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob removed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder, and it came to pass when he drew nigh to Chabratha, to enter into Ephrath, Rachel travailed; and in her travail she was in hard labor.

Strong's G4078 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 14:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineveh. Remember, my son, how Nadab handled Ahikar that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Ahikar was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasseh gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Nadab fell into the snare, and perished.

Wisdom of Solomon 7:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh In the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, Of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.

Wisdom of Solomon 11:2 Septuagint / Brenton

They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, And pitched tents in places where there lay no way.

Usage Excerpts

First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4078.

Genesis 26:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he built there an altar, and called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well in the Valley of Gerar.
Genesis 31:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Laban overtook Jacob; and Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban stationed his brothers in the Mount Gilead.
Genesis 35:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob removed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder, and it came to pass when he drew nigh to Chabratha, to enter into Ephrath, Rachel travailed; and in her travail she was in hard labor.
Exodus 15:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And by the breath of thine anger the water parted asunder; The waters were congealed as a wall, The waves were congealed in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 33:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses took his tabernacle and pitched it without the camp, at a distance from the camp; and it was called the Tabernacle of Testimony: and it came to pass that everyone that sought the Lord went forth to the tabernacle which was without the camp.
Exodus 38:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He made the brazen laver, and the brazen base of it of the mirrors of the women that fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.
Numbers 24:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As shady groves, And as gardens by a river, And as tents which God pitched, And as cedars by the waters.
Joshua 18:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the congregation of the children of Israel were assembled at Shiloh, and there they pitched the tabernacle of witness; and the land was subdued by them.
Judges 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Heber the Kenite had removed from Caina, from the sons of Jobab the father-in-law of Moses, and pitched his tent by the oak of the covetous ones, which is near Kedesh.
Judges 4:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jael the wife of Heber took a pin of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him, and fastened the pin in his temple, and it went through to the earth, and he fainted away, and darkness fell upon him and he died.
Judges 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Delilah took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
2 Kingdoms 6:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they bring the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle which David pitched for it: and David offered whole burnt offerings before the Lord, and peace offerings.
2 Kingdoms 16:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Kingdoms 21:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
1 Chronicles 16:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle which David pitched for it; and they offered whole burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
Ezra 6:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Job 6:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They who used to reverence me, now have come against me Like snow or congealed ice.
Job 15:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What! art thou the first man that was born? Or wert thou established before the hills?
Job 38:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On what are its rings fastened? And who is he that laid the cornerstone upon it?
Job 38:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
Job 41:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His heart is firm as a stone, And it stands like an unyielding anvil.
Isaiah 38:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver’s web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.
Isaiah 42:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:
Isaiah 54:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and of thy curtains: fix the pins, spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy pins;
Jeremiah 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.
Lamentations 4:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; They are not known in the streets: Their skin has cloven to their bones; They are withered, they are become as a stick.
Daniel 11:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall pitch the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the holy mountain of beauty: but he shall come to his portion, and there is none to deliver him.
Hebrews 8:2 New Testament, KJV
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Tobit 14:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineveh. Remember, my son, how Nadab handled Ahikar that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Ahikar was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasseh gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Nadab fell into the snare, and perished.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh In the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, Of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.
Wisdom of Solomon 11:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, And pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
Wisdom of Sirach 14:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He that doth lodge near her house Shall also fasten a pin in her walls.
Wisdom of Sirach 19:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As an arrow that sticketh in a man’s thigh, So is a word within a fool’s belly.
Wisdom of Sirach 27:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As a nail sticketh fast between the joinings of the stones; So doth sin stick close between buying and selling.
Wisdom of Sirach 43:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, And being congealed, it becometh sharp peaks.
Wisdom of Sirach 43:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When the cold north wind bloweth, And the water is congealed into ice, It abideth upon every gathering together of water, And clotheth the water as with a breastplate.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4078, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4078 FAQ

What does pegnymi (πήγνυμι) mean?

Pegnymi (Strong's G4078) is a Greek word most simply glossed "pitch". pegnumi (payg'-noo-mee) v. 1. to fix 2. (specially) to set up (a tent)

How many times is pegnymi (πήγνυμι) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's G4078 across 17 books.

Where can I study pegnymi (πήγνυμι) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4078 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate pegnymi (πήγνυμι)?

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

Does Strong's G4078 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 27 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4078, with linked reader references where each row is available.