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Strong's #4969: sphazo (pronounced sfad'-zo)

a primary verb; to butcher (especially an animal for food or in sacrifice) or (generally) to slaughter, or (specially), to maim (violently):--kill, slay, wound.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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sphazō

1) to slay, slaughter, butcher

2) to put to death by violence

3) mortally wounded

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primary verb

Citing in TDNT: 7:925, 1125




Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

1 John 3:12: "of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore"
1 John 3:12: "brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own"
Revelation 5:6: "stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and"
Revelation 5:9: "seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God"
Revelation 5:12: "is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches,"
Revelation 6:4: "the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given"
Revelation 6:9: "altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God,"
Revelation 13:3: "of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his"
Revelation 13:8: "of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
Revelation 18:24: "of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."









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