σφαγή
sphagḗ · G4967 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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slaughter, killing
Slaughtering, either of animals or persons; in contexts referring to persons, the implication is of violence and mercilessness
ExamplesActs 8:32 Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: “HE WAS LED LIKE A SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER; AND LIKE A LAMB THAT IS SILENT BEFORE ITS SHEARER, SO HE DOES NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH.
Romans 8:36 Just as it is written: “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE REGARDED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”
James 5:5 You have lived for pleasure on the earth and lived luxuriously; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
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day of condemnation
(An idiom, literally: day of slaughter) A time of destructive judgment
ExamplesJames 5:5 You have lived for pleasure on the earth and lived luxuriously; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίon 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἡμέραday 1
- πρόβατονsheep 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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In the other Testament 3 words
- טֶבַח ṭebach · H2874 · killing, slaughter, butchering, killing, slaughter
- Hebrew טֶבַח denotes slaughter/butchery of animals (for food or sacrifice) or men, directly paralleling Greek σφαγή's core semantic range of butchery (literal and figurative destruction); both terms share the conceptual domain of violent killing whether ritual, culinary, or metaphorical.
- הֲרֵגָה hărêgâh · H2028 · slaughter, butchery
- Greek σφαγή and Hebrew הֲרֵגָה both denote violent slaughter, with σφαγή emphasizing butchery (sacrificial or destructive killing) and הֲרֵגָה emphasizing mass slaughter or massacre; the terms overlap substantially in rendering contexts of destruction and killing.
- טָבַח ṭâbach · H2873 · to kill, to slaughter, to butcher
- Hebrew verb for the act of slaughtering/killing rendered by Greek noun denoting the slaughter event itself; both terms apply to ritual sacrifice and general killing contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To slaughter, to kill20.72
- Luke records the Scripture the eunuch was reading, “HE WAS LED LIKE A SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER; AND LIKE A LAMB THAT IS SILENT BEFORE ITS SHEARER, SO HE DOES NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH” (Acts 8:32).
- Day of condemnation56.33
- James warns the rich, “you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter” (James 5:5).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σφαγῆς, ἡ (σφάζω), slaughter: Acts 8:32 (after Isa 53:7); πρόβατα σφαγῆς, sheep destined…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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