noun · neuter
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) *;]
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
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.
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 or object direct | sfagiem | sfagieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sfagieu | sfagieiu |
| to, for dative | sfagie | sfagiei |
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
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 …