κατασφάττω
kataspháttō · G2695 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to slaughter, to kill
To slaughter, either animals or persons; in contexts referring to persons, the implication is of violence and mercilessness
ExamplesLuke 19:27 ‘But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.’”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔμπροσθενbefore, in front of+ ἐγώI, we 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To slaughter, to kill20.72
- In Luke 19:27, in the parable of the minas, the nobleman commands concerning his enemies, “bring them here and slaughter them in my presence,” using this word for the act of killing someone outright.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (or κατασφαττόω): 1 aorist κατεσφαξα; "to kill off (cf. κατά III. 1), to slaughter": Lk…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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