Lexicon pelekizó: to cut off with an ax, esp. to behead Original Word: πελεκίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pelekizó Phonetic Spelling: (pel-ek-id'-zo) Short Definition: I behead Definition: I behead (with an axe). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom pelekus (a battle-ax) Definitionto cut off with an ax, esp. to behead NASB Translationbeheaded (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3990: πελεκίζωπελεκίζω: 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)).)
Strong's behead. From a derivative of plesso (meaning an axe); to chop off (the head), i.e. Truncate -- behead. see GREEK plesso |
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