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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 Box Job 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 - If his children increase - it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 - Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - For the LORD is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 - The LORD's sword is dripping with blood, it is covered with fat; it drips with the blood of young rams and goats and is covered with the fat of rams' kidneys. For the LORD is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah, a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12 - I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:3 - But you, LORD, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - "I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:6 - So I, the LORD, say: "The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley the Valley of Slaughter!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - Moab will be destroyed. Its towns will be invaded. Its finest young men will be slaughtered. I, the King, the LORD who rules over all, affirm it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:40 - "I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats."

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:10 - "Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:4 - The LORD my God says this: "Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:7 - So I began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted of all the flock. Then I took two staffs, calling one "Pleasantness" and the other "Binders," and I tended the flock.
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