noun · feminine
sfagas
Strong’sG4967
slaughter, sacrifice
stem sfag-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
σφαγή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< σφάζω), [in LXX for טֶבַח, הֲרֵגָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4967 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsfag-ay'
butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice, or (figuratively) of men (destruction))
Fromfrom G4969;
King Jamesslaughter.
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
slaughter; the singular is frequently in Refs 5th c.BC+; ἕστηκε.. μῆλα πρὸς σφαγὰς πυρός ready for the sacrificial fire, Refs 4th c.BC+; πολυθύτους τεύχειν σ. to offer many sacrifices, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in Prose, ὑπὸ σφαγῆς Refs 5th c.BC+; σφαγὰς τῶν γνωρίμων ποιήσαντεςRefs 5th c.BC+
2 with collateral sense of a wound, αἷμα τῶν ἐμῶν σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκφυσιῶν.. αἵματος σφαγήν the blood gushing from the wound, Refs 4th c.BC+; καθάρμοσον σφαγάς close the gaping wound, Refs 5th c.BC+
II the throat, the spot where the victim is struck (κοινὸν μέρος αὐχένος καὶ στήθους σφαγή Refs 5th c.BC+; so in prose, οἰστοὺς.. ἐς τὰς σ. καθιέντες Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς τὴν κεφαλὴν.. διὰ τῶν σ. Refs 4th 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.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sfagas | sfagais |
| object accusative | sfagan1×σφαγὴν | sfagain |
| direct address vocative | sfagar | sfagair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sfagau2×σφαγῆς | sfagaiu |
| to, for dative | sfaga | sfagai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
sfaga 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
sfagan“slaughter”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 8:32… anagnōskate ate houtas; Hōs probatem epi sfagan agita, kai hōs amnos enantion tou …… led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the …
sfagau“slaughter”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Romans 8:36… holan tan hēmeran, logizina hōs probateim sfagau.… are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
James 5:5… trefava tain kardiain vu en hēmera sfagau.… your hearts in the day of slaughter.