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Lexicon :: Strong's G615 - apokteinō

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ἀποκτείνω
Transliteration
apokteinō (Key)
Pronunciation
ap-ok-ti'-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἀπό (G575) and kteino (to slay)
mGNT
74x in 23 unique form(s) TR
75x in 23 unique form(s) LXX
165x in 38 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

†ἀποκτείνω apokteínō, ap-ok-ti'-no; from G575 and κτείνω kteínō (to slay); to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy:—put to death, kill, slay.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x

The KJV translates Strong's G615 in the following manner: kill (55x), slay (14x), put to death (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x
The KJV translates Strong's G615 in the following manner: kill (55x), slay (14x), put to death (6x).

  1. to kill in any way whatever

    1. to destroy, to allow to perish

  2. metaph. to extinguish, abolish

    1. to inflict mortal death

    2. to deprive of spiritual life and procure eternal misery in hell

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ἀποκτείνω apokteínō, ap-ok-ti'-no; from G575 and κτείνω kteínō (to slay); to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy:—put to death, kill, slay.
STRONGS G615:
ἀποκτείνω, and Aeolic, -κτέννω (Matthew 10:28 L T Tr; Mark 12:5 G L T Tr; Luke 12:4 L T Tr; 2 Corinthians 3:6 T Tr; cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 507f; [Tdf. Proleg., p. 79]; Winers Grammar, 83 (79); [Buttmann, 61 (54)]), ἀποκτένω (Griesbach in Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:4), ἀποκταίνω (Lachmann in 2 Corinthians 3:6; Revelation 13:10), ἀποκτέννυντες (Mark 12:5 WH); future ἀποκτενῶ; 1 aorist ἀπέκτεινα; passive, present infinitive ἀποκτέννεσθαι (Revelation 6:11 G L T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἀπεκτάνθην (Bttm. Ausf. Spr. ii. 227; Winers Grammar, the passage cited; [Buttmann, 41 (35f)]); [from Homer down];
1. properly, to kill in any way whatever (ἀπό i. e. so as to put out of the way; cf. [English to kill off], German abschlachten): Matthew 16:21; Matthew 22:6; Mark 6:19; Mark 9:31; John 5:18; John 8:22; Acts 3:15; Revelation 2:13, and very often; [ἀποκτ. ἐν θανάτῳ, Revelation 2:23; Revelation 6:8, cf. Buttmann, 184 (159); Winers Grammar, 339 (319)]. to destroy (allow to perish): Mark 3:4 [yet others take it here absolutely, to kill].
2. metaphorically, to extinguish, abolish: τὴν ἔχθραν, Ephesians 2:16; to inflict moral death, Romans 7:11 (see ἀποθνήσκω, II. 2); to deprive of spiritual life and procure eternal misery, 2 Corinthians 3:6 [Lachmann ἀποκταίνει; see above].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
10:28; 10:28; 16:21; 22:6
Mark
3:4; 6:19; 9:31; 12:5; 12:5
Luke
12:4; 12:4
John
5:18; 8:22
Acts
3:15
Romans
7:11
2 Corinthians
3:6; 3:6; 3:6
Ephesians
2:16
Revelation
2:13; 2:23; 6:8; 6:11; 13:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G615 matches the Greek ἀποκτείνω (apokteinō),
which occurs 165 times in 159 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[fn] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - But the LORD said to him, “Not so[fn]; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25 - Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,[fn] saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25 - Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:26 - They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 - But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7 - But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight; so the LORD put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:6 - Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:23 - and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:24 - At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses[fn] and was about to kill him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21 - and they said, “May the LORD look on you and judge you! You have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:3 - The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:3 - But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:19 - “Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24 - My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7 - Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:4 - If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:15 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:16 - “ ‘If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:15 - If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Isn’t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:41 - The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the LORD’s people,” they said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:4 - Why did you bring the LORD’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:5 - So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7 - They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19 - The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:9 - You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people.

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4. LOAD PAGE 4 Dan 2:13–Hab 1:17

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