Lexical Summary pelekizō: to cut off with an ax, to behead Original Word: πελεκίζωTransliteration: pelekizō Phonetic Spelling: (pel-ek-id'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut off with an ax, to behead Meaning: to cut off with an ax, to behead Strong's Concordance behead. From a derivative of plesso (meaning an axe); to chop off (the head), i.e. Truncate -- behead. see GREEK plesso Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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)).) |
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