σφάγιον
sphágion · G4968 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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sacrifice
That which is offered as a sacrifice
ExamplesActs 7:42 “But God turned away and gave them over to serve the heavenly lights; as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘YOU DID NOT OFFER ME VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES FOR FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, DID YOU, HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- προσφέρωto offer, to bring to 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- θυσία thysía · G2378 · sacrifice
- θῦμα and θυσία both denote the offering presented in a sacrificial rite, the victim as well as the act of sacrifice itself. The two share the identical core sense within the sacrificial semantic domain, differing chiefly in frequency of use, θυσία being the far more common term.
In the other Testament 1 word
- טֶבַח ṭebach · H2874 · killing, slaughter, butchering, killing, slaughter
- Hebrew טֶבַח denotes the slaughtered animal or the act of slaughter itself, while Greek σφάγιον specifically refers to a sacrificial victim; both terms overlap in contexts of ritual animal slaughter where the slaughtered beast serves as the sacrifice.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Sacrifice53.20
- Stephen recounts God's rebuke, quoting the prophets, “YOU DID NOT OFFER ME VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES FOR FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, DID YOU, HOUSE OF ISRAEL?” (Acts 7:42).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σφαγιου, τό (σφαγή), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, that which is destined for…
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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