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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #3990 - πελεκίζω

Transliteration

pelekízō

Phonetics

pel-ek-id'-zo

Root Word (Etymology)

from a derivative of (G4141) (meaning an axe)

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to cut off with an axe, to behead

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Revelation 1

NAS (1)

Revelation 1

CSB (1)

Revelation 1

BSB (1)

Revelation 1

ESV (1)

Revelation 1

WEB (1)

Revelation 1

KJV (1)

beheaded 1

NAS (1)

beheaded 1

CSB (1)

who had been beheaded 1

BSB (1)

had been beheaded 1

ESV (1)

beheaded 1

WEB (1)

of those who had been beheaded 1

RAH

V-RPP-GPM 1

ANT

V-RPP-GPM 1

BEZ

V-RPM/P-GMP 1

BGB

V-RPP-GPM 1

BMT

V-RPP-GPM 1

BYZ

V-RPP-GPM 1

ELZ

V-XPPGPM 1

NA26

V-XPPGPM 1

SBL

V-RPP-GPM 1

SCV

V-RPP-GPM 1

STV

V-RPP-GPM 1

TIS

V-RPP-GPM 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

πελεκ-ίζω,

cut off with an axe, esp. behead, τινα Plb. 1.7.12, 11.30.2 (Pass.), Str. 16.2.18, D.S. 19.101, Revelation 20:4 (Pass.).

Thayer's Expanded Definition

πελεκίζω: perfect passive participle πεπελεκισμενος; (πέλεκυς, an axe or two-edged hatchet); to cut off with an axe, to behead: τινα, Revelation 20:4. (Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo, Josephus, Antiquities 20, 5, 4; Plutarch, Ant. 36; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 26 (25)).)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

† πελεκίζω

(<πέλεκυς , a battle-axe),

to out off with an axe, esp. to behead: c. acc, Revelation 20:4 (Polyb., al.).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

";bitterly"; : P Petr III. 42 H (8) f. .8 (mid. iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski.2, p. 15) ὁ βασι [λεὺς ἐλθὼν εἰς τὴν λί ]μνην πικρ [ῶ ]ς σοι ἐχρήσατο. The compar. appears in P Par 46.20 (B.C. 152) (= UPZ i. p. 338) νομίζω γὰρ μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων παρακολουθήσαντά σε τῆι ἀληθείαι πικρότερον προσενεχθήσεσθ᾽ αὐτῶι, ";denn ich glaube, dass Du ganz besonders vor den andern der Wahrheit die Ehre geben uad ihn schärfer anfassen wirst"; (Wilcken).

List of Word Forms

επελιώθη πελέκει πέλεκυν πέλεκυς πελιδνοί πέλται πέλταις πέλτας πελτασταί πέλυξ πέμμα πέμματα πέμματι πεπελεκισμενων πεπελεκισμένων pepelekismenon pepelekismenōn pepelekisménon pepelekisménōn