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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)
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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, (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.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion
and display your awesome power against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.
Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 - They may have many children,
but the children will die in war or starve to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 - But for your sake we are killed every day;
we are being slaughtered like sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - He followed her at once,
like an ox going to the slaughter.
He was like a stag caught in a trap,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - For the LORD is enraged against the nations.
His fury is against all their armies.
He will completely destroy[fn] them,
dooming them to slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 - The sword of the LORD is drenched with blood
and covered with fat—
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice.
Yes, the LORD will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah.
He will make a mighty slaughter in Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12 - now I will ‘destine’ you for the sword.
All of you will bow down before the executioner.
For when I called, you did not answer.
When I spoke, you did not listen.
You deliberately sinned—before my very eyes—
and chose to do what you know I despise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:3 - But as for me, LORD, you know my heart.
You see me and test my thoughts.
Drag these people away like sheep to be butchered!
Set them aside to be slaughtered!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the LORD. “I will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:6 - So beware, for the time is coming, says the LORD, when this garbage dump will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - Weep and moan, you evil shepherds!
Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock!
The time of your slaughter has arrived;
you will fall and shatter like a fragile vase.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - But now Moab and his towns will be destroyed.
His most promising youth are doomed to slaughter,”
says the King, whose name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Destroy even her young bulls—
it will be terrible for them, too!
Slaughter them all!
For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:40 - “I will bring them down
like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and goats to be sacrificed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - Let their hearts melt with terror,
for the sword glitters at every gate.
It flashes like lightning
and is polished for slaughter!
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:10 - “Because of the violence you did
to your close relatives in Israel,[fn]
you will be filled with shame
and destroyed forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4 - This is what the LORD my God says: “Go and care for the flock that is intended for slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7 - So I cared for the flock intended for slaughter—the flock that was oppressed. Then I took two shepherd’s staffs and named one Favor and the other Union.
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