Strong's Greek: 5020. ταρταρόω (tartaroó) -- to cast into hell

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tartaroó: to cast into hell

Original Word: ταρταρόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: tartaroó
Phonetic Spelling: (tar-tar-o'-o)
Short Definition: I thrust down to Tartarus
Definition: I thrust down to Tartarus or Gehenna.

HELPS word-Studies

5020 tartaróō – properly, send to Tartarus ("Tartaros"). The NT uses 5020 (tartaróō) for the netherworld – the place of punishment fit only for demons. Later, Tartaros came to represent eternal punishment for wicked people.

"5020 (tartaróō) is a Greek name for the under-world, especially the abode of the damned – hence to cast into hell" (A-S); to send into the subterranean abyss reserved for demons and the dead.

[In Greek mythology, Tartarus was a "place of punishment under the earth, to which, for example, the Titans were sent" (Souter).]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from Tartaros (a Gr. name for the abode of the damned)
Definition
to cast into hell
NASB Translation
cast...into hell (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 5020: ταρταρόω

ταρταρόω, ταρτάρῳ: 1 aorist participle ταρταρώσας; (τάρταρος, the name of a subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to the Gehenna of the Jews, see γηννα); to thrust down to Tartarus (sometimes in the Scholiasts) (cf. Winers Grammar, 25 (24) n.); to hold captive in Tartarus: τινα σειραῖς (which see) σοφοῦ, 2 Peter 2:4 (A. V. cast down to hell (making the dative depend on παρέδωκεν)).

Strong's

cast into hell.

From Tartaros (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment -- cast down to hell.