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noun · neuter

Greekσφάγιον (sfagion)
Biblang

sfagiem

Strong’sG4968

a slaughtered victim

stem sfagi-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.

σφάγιον, -ου, τό

(< σφαγή), [in LXX: Am 5:25 (זֶבַח), Ez 21:10, 15, 28 (טֶבַח), Le 22:23 (נְדָבָה) *;]

a victim for slaughter: Ac 7:42 (LXX).†

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

Strong’s G4968 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsfag'-ee-on

a victim (in sacrifice)

Fromneuter of a derivative of G4967;

King Jamesslain beast.

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
σφᾰγ-ιον, τό,
victim, offering, σφάγιον ἔθετο ματέρα Refs 5th c.BC+; ἑαυτὰς ἔδοσαν σφάγιον τοῖς πολίταις ὑπὲρ τῆς χώρας Refs 4th c.BC+: mostly in plural, σφάγια παρθένους κτανεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. ἔρδειν, τέμνειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ σ. δέξαι, addressed to a goddess, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in Refs 5th c.BC+ also, slaughter, sacrifice, δοῦλα σφάγια Refs

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.

sacrifices1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject or object directsfagiemsfagieim
of, belonging to genitivesfagieusfagieiu
to, for dativesfagiesfagiei

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
sfagistem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

sfagie 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

sfagieim1×

Acts 7:42“sacrifices”… grafotē en bibla toiu profētoiu; Mē sfagieim kai thusiain prosferava mi eteim tesserakonta …… it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the …