verb

Greekκατασφάζω (katasfazō)

Biblang

katasfazamō

Strong’sG2695

I slaughter

stem katasfaz-once in the New Testament1 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

κατα-σφάζω,

[in LXX: Za 11:5 (הרג), Ez 16:40 (בּתק pi.), II Mac8;]

to kill off, slay: c. acc., Lk 19:27.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2695 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkat-as-fat'-to

to kill down, i.e. slaughter

Fromfrom G2596 and G4969;

King Jamesslay.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κατασφάζω,
later κατασυν-σφάττω Refs 2nd c.AD+: future -ξω LXX:—slaughter, murder, NT+5th c.BC+: frequently in aorist passive κατεσφάγην [ᾰ] Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

slaughter1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.

Form and the Greek behind it	What it is	Usually	Times
katasfazavarκατασφάξατε	happened · yeaorist active imperative 2nd person plural	slaughter	1×

Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.

Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses

Statements — indicative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	was happening imperfect	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect	had happened pluperfect
I 1st person singular	katasfazamō	katasfazame	katasfazami	katasfazama	katasfazamē	katasfazamelē
you 2nd person singular	katasfazasō	katasfazase	katasfazasi	katasfazasa	katasfazasē	katasfazaselē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	katasfazatō	katasfazate	katasfazati	katasfazata	katasfazatē	katasfazatelē
we 1st person plural	katasfazanō	katasfazane	katasfazani	katasfazana	katasfazanē	katasfazanelē
ye 2nd person plural	katasfazavō	katasfazave	katasfazavi	katasfazava	katasfazavē	katasfazavelē
they 3rd person plural	katasfazalō	katasfazale	katasfazali	katasfazala	katasfazalē	katasfazalelē

May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
I 1st person singular	katasfazameiō	katasfazameia	katasfazameiē
you 2nd person singular	katasfazaseiō	katasfazaseia	katasfazaseiē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	katasfazateiō	katasfazateia	katasfazateiē
we 1st person plural	katasfazaneiō	katasfazaneia	katasfazaneiē
ye 2nd person plural	katasfazaveiō	katasfazaveia	katasfazaveiē
they 3rd person plural	katasfazaleiō	katasfazaleia	katasfazaleiē

Commands — imperative mood, 1 occurrence

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
you 2nd person singular	katasfazasōr	katasfazasar	katasfazasēr
he/she/it 3rd person singular	katasfazatōr	katasfazatar	katasfazatēr
ye 2nd person plural	katasfazavōr	katasfazavar1×κατασφάξατε	katasfazavēr
they 3rd person plural	katasfazalōr	katasfazalar	katasfazalēr

Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist
I 1st person singular	katasfazamoiō	katasfazamoia
you 2nd person singular	katasfazasoiō	katasfazasoia
he/she/it 3rd person singular	katasfazatoiō	katasfazatoia
we 1st person plural	katasfazanoiō	katasfazanoia
ye 2nd person plural	katasfazavoiō	katasfazavoia
they 3rd person plural	katasfazaloiō	katasfazaloia

The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	katasfazarō	katasfazari	katasfazara	katasfazarē

Used as an adjective — participle, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	katasfazarōntos	katasfazarintos	katasfazarantos	katasfazarēntos

Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.

How every form is built — the slots that make them

katasfazstem+aoeiwho is acting voice+mstnvl—who person+—eiroistatement, command, wish mood+ōeiaēelēwhen tense+—ntthen it declines+—ogender+—sits job in the sentence case

katasfaz is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

katasfazavar“slaughter”happened · yeaorist active imperative 2nd person plural1×

Luke 19:27“slaughter”… basilara epi autoin agavar hōde kai katasfazavar autoin emprosthen mu.… to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of …