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πρίζω

prízō · G4249 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Thing

Meanings

  1. to cut in two with a saw, to saw in two

    To cut an object in two with a saw

    Examples

    Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented

How it’s used In 1 role

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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In the other Testament 1 word
שׂוּר sûwr · H7787 · to turn away (from someone), to hack
Hebrew verb specifically meaning 'to saw,' cognate with the noun מְשׂוֹר/מַשּׂוֹר (saw); direct translation equivalent for the act of sawing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To cut in two with a saw, to saw in two19.20
The verb describes cutting something in two with a saw. Hebrews' roll call of the faithful who suffered uses this term: “They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented” (Hebrews 11:37).
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πρίζωprízō · G4249διαπρίω diapríō · G1282 · to be furious, to be enraged · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (or πρίω, which see): 1 aorist passive ἐπρίσθην; to saw, to cut in two with a saw: Heb…
(or πρίω, which see): 1 aorist passive ἐπρίσθην; to saw, to cut in two with a saw: Heb 11:37. To be 'sawn asunder' was a kind of punishment among the Hebrews (2 Sam 12:31; 1 Chr 20:3), which according to ancient tradition was inflicted on the prophet Isaiah; cf. Winers RWB, under the word Säge; Roskoff in Schenkel 5:135; (B. D., under the word ). (Amos 1:3; Susanna 59; Plato, Theag., p. 124 b. and frequent in later writings.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Pierce, Cut1 occurrence

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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