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Strong's #1474 - ἐδαφίζω
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- to throw to the ground
- both of cities and buildings, to raze, level with the earth
- metaph. of men
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ἐδᾰφ-ίζω,
I beat level and firm like a floor or pavement, Plb. 6.33.6, Thphr. HP 9.3.1: — Pass., Id. CP 4.8.2, Arist. Pr. 934b10.
II provide with a floor, οἶκον IG 11(2).158 A 66 (iii B. C.), cf. BCH 29.475.
III dash to the ground, LXX Psalms 136:9(137).9, Luke 19:44.
ἐδαφιζο: Attic future ἐδαφιω (Buttmann, 37 (32); Winers Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); (see ἔδαφος); to throw to the ground — both of cities, buildings, to raze, level with the earth, and of men; in both applications in Luke 19:44 (by zeugma (?) cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 e.). (Psalm 136:9
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ἐδαφίζω
(< ἔδαφος ),
[in LXX chiefly for H7376 pu.;]
1. to beat level like a threshing floor (Theophr.).
2. to dash to the ground (Field, Notes, 74): Luke 19:44 (cf. Psalms 137:9, Hosea 14:1).†
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In support of the RV rendering in Luke 19:44 ";and shall dash thee to the ground,"; see Field Notes, p. 74. We have not come across any example of the verb in the papyri or the inscrr. though the subst (see s.v.) is common.
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