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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 should my head be high, You would hunt me like a lion;

And You would show Your power against me again.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 -

“Let his own eyes see his destruction,

And let him drink of the wrath of [fn]the Almighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 -

Though his sons are many, [fn]they are destined for the sword;

And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 -

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 -

Suddenly he follows her

As an ox goes to the slaughter,

Or as [fn]one walks in ankle bracelets to the discipline of a fool,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 -

For the LORD’S anger is against all the nations,

And His wrath against all their armies.

He has [fn]utterly destroyed them,

He has turned them over to slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 -

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood,

It drips with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,

With the fat of the kidneys of rams.

For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 -

He was oppressed and afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12 -

I will destine you for the sword,

And all of you will bow down to the slaughter.

Because I called, but you did not answer;

I spoke, but you did not listen.

Instead, you did evil in My sight

And chose that in which I did not delight.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:3 -

But You know me, LORD;

You see me

And examine my heart’s attitude toward You.

Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter,

And [fn]set them apart for a day of slaughter!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 -

“And I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the LORD: “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:6 - therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock;

For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions [fn]have come,

And you will fall like a precious vessel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 -

“Moab has been destroyed and [fn]men have gone up to [fn]his cities;

His choicest [fn]young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”

Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of armies.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 -

Put all her bulls to the sword;

Let them go down to the slaughter!

Woe be upon them, for their day has come,

The time of their punishment.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:40 -

“I will bring them down like [fn]lambs to the slaughter,

Like rams together with male goats.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - so that their hearts will waver, and many fall at all their gates. I have granted the slaughter of the sword. Oh! It is made for striking like lightning, it is sharpened in readiness for slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:10 -

“Because of violence to your brother Jacob,

Shame will cover you,

And you will be eliminated forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4 -

This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7 -

So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, [fn]therefore also the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called [fn]Favor, and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.

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