Lexicon prizó: to saw (in two) Original Word: πρίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: prizó Phonetic Spelling: (prid'-zo) Short Definition: I saw, saw through Definition: I saw, saw through. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originalt. form of a prim. verb prió (to saw) Definitionto saw (in two) NASB Translationsawn in two (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4249: πρίζωπρίζω (or πρίω, which see): 1 aorist passive ἐπρίσθην; to saw, to cut in two with a saw: Hebrews 11:37. To be 'sawn asunder' was a kind of punishment among the Hebrews ( 2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chronicles 20:3), which according to ancient tradition was inflicted on the prophet Isaiah; cf. Winers RWB, under the word Säge; Roskoff in Schenkel 5:135; ( B. D., under the word ). (Amos 1:3; Susanna 59; Plato, Theag., p. 124 b. and frequent in later writings.) STRONGS NT 4249: πρίωπρίω, see πρίζω. (Compare: διαπρίω.)
Strong's saw asunder. A strengthened form of a primary prio (to saw); to saw in two -- saw asunder. |
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