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Strong's #4967: sphage (pronounced sfag-ay')

from 4969; butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice, or (figuratively) of men (destruction)):--slaughter.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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sphagē

1) slaughter

1a) of sheep destined for slaughter

1b) of day of destruction

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G4969

Citing in TDNT: 7:935, 1125




Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Acts 8:32: "as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb"
Romans 8:36: "day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
James 5:5: "hearts, as in a day of slaughter."









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