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Lexicon :: Strong's G4967 - sphagē

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σφαγή
Transliteration
sphagē (Key)
Pronunciation
sfag-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
3x in 2 unique form(s) TR
3x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
20x in 5 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:935,1125

Strong’s Definitions

σφαγή sphagḗ, sfag-ay'; from G4969; butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice, or (figuratively) of men (destruction)):—slaughter.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G4967 in the following manner: slaughter (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G4967 in the following manner: slaughter (3x).

  1. slaughter

    1. of sheep destined for slaughter

    2. of day of destruction

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σφαγή sphagḗ, sfag-ay'; from G4969; butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice, or (figuratively) of men (destruction)):—slaughter.
STRONGS G4967:
σφαγή, σφαγῆς, ἡ (σφάζω), slaughter: Acts 8:32 (after Isaiah 53:7); πρόβατα σφαγῆς, sheep destined for slaughter (Zechariah 11:4; Psalm 43:23 (Ps. 44:23)), Romans 8:36; ἡμέρα σφαγῆς (Jeremiah 12:3), equivalent to day of destruction, James 5:5. (Tragg., Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and following; the Sept. for טֶבַח, הֲרֵגָה, etc.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
44:23
Isaiah
53:7
Jeremiah
12:3
Zechariah
11:4
Acts
8:32
Romans
8:36
James
5:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4967 matches the Greek σφαγή (sphagē),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 - However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 - Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer[fn] stepping into a noose[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy[fn] them, he will give them over to slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 - The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12 - I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will fall in the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:3 - Yet you know me, LORD; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the LORD, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:6 - So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall like the best of the rams.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded; her finest young men will go down in the slaughter,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them! For their day has come, the time for them to be punished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:40 - “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - So that hearts may melt with fear and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter[fn] at all their gates. Look! It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:10 - Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4 - This is what the LORD my God says: “Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7 - So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.
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