stērigma (στήριγμα)
- Language: Greek
- Romanized: stērigma
- Original script: στήριγμα
- Gloss: support, prop
The Septuagint’s support language for the staff-of-bread idiom. It is the Greek word the translators reach for when the Hebrew speaks of bread as the thing a people leans on.
Related entries
- Matteh — Hebrew staff
- Mishan — Hebrew support
- Sterigma Artou — support of bread (the full LXX phrase)
- Baculum Panis — Latin (Vulgate) parallel