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Strong's #615: apokteino (pronounced ap-ok-ti'-no)

from 575 and kteino (to slay); to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy:--put to death, kill, slay.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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apokteinō

1) to kill in any way whatever

1a) to destroy, to allow to perish

2) metaphorically to extinguish, abolish

2a) to inflict mortal death

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G575 and kteino (to slay)




Usage:

This word is used 75 times:

Acts 7:52: "fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming"
Acts 21:31: "And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain"
Acts 23:12: "that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul."
Acts 23:14: "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul."
Acts 27:42: "counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them"
Romans 7:11: "and by it slew"
Romans 11:3: "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;"
2 Corinthians 3:6: "of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit"
Ephesians 2:16: "by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:"
1 Thessalonians 2:15: " Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets,"
Revelation 2:13: "was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where"
Revelation 2:23: "And I will kill her children with death; and all"
Revelation 6:8: "fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with"
Revelation 6:11: "and their brethren, that should be killed as they were,"
Revelation 9:5: "it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented"
Revelation 9:15: "and a year, for to slay the third part of men."
Revelation 9:18: "was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and"
Revelation 9:20: "men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not"
Revelation 11:5: "he must in this manner be killed."
Revelation 11:7: "shall overcome them, and kill them."
Revelation 11:13: "in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand:"
Revelation 13:10: "into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be"
Revelation 13:10: "the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is"
Revelation 13:15: "the image of the beast should be killed."
Revelation 19:21: "And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat"









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