verb
tartaramō
Strong’sG5020
I thrust down to Tartarus
stem tartar-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.
*† ταρταρόω, -ῶ
(< Τάρταρος, a Greek name for the underworld, esp. the abode of the damned),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5020 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtar-tar-o'-o
to incarcerate in eternal torment
Fromfrom Τάρταρος (the deepest abyss of Hades);
King Jamescast down to hell.
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
cast into Tartarus or hell, NT+8th c.BC+
Τάρτᾰρ-ος, ὁ,
also ἡ Refs 8th c.BC+; later, the nether world generally, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀπέραντος, κελαινός, Refs 4th c.BC+; Ταρτάρου μελαμβαθὴς κευθμώνLXX
II personified as husband of Gaia and father of Typhoeus, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὦ Γᾶς παῖ καὶ Ταρτάρου, of Cerberus, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| tartararantosταρταρώσας | happened · subjectaorist active participle nominative singular masculine | cast … intohell | 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 | tartaramō | tartarame | tartarami | tartarama | tartaramē | tartaramelē |
| you 2nd person singular | tartarasō | tartarase | tartarasi | tartarasa | tartarasē | tartaraselē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tartaratō | tartarate | tartarati | tartarata | tartaratē | tartaratelē |
| we 1st person plural | tartaranō | tartarane | tartarani | tartarana | tartaranē | tartaranelē |
| ye 2nd person plural | tartaravō | tartarave | tartaravi | tartarava | tartaravē | tartaravelē |
| they 3rd person plural | tartaralō | tartarale | tartarali | tartarala | tartaralē | tartaralelē |
May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | tartarameiō | tartarameia | tartarameiē |
| you 2nd person singular | tartaraseiō | tartaraseia | tartaraseiē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tartarateiō | tartarateia | tartarateiē |
| we 1st person plural | tartaraneiō | tartaraneia | tartaraneiē |
| ye 2nd person plural | tartaraveiō | tartaraveia | tartaraveiē |
| they 3rd person plural | tartaraleiō | tartaraleia | tartaraleiē |
Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| you 2nd person singular | tartarasōr | tartarasar | tartarasēr |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tartaratōr | tartaratar | tartaratēr |
| ye 2nd person plural | tartaravōr | tartaravar | tartaravēr |
| they 3rd person plural | tartaralōr | tartaralar | tartaralēr |
Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist |
|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | tartaramoiō | tartaramoia |
| you 2nd person singular | tartarasoiō | tartarasoia |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tartaratoiō | tartaratoia |
| we 1st person plural | tartaranoiō | tartaranoia |
| ye 2nd person plural | tartaravoiō | tartaravoia |
| they 3rd person plural | tartaraloiō | tartaraloia |
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 | tartararō | tartarari | tartarara | tartararē |
Used as an adjective — participle, 1 occurrence
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | tartararōntos | tartararintos | tartararantos1×ταρταρώσας | tartararēntos |
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
tartar 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
tartararantos“cast … intohell”happened · subjectaorist active participle nominative singular masculine1×
2 Peter 2:4… hamartarantoiu ouk feideta, alla seirai zofou tartararantos paradōata eis krisian tērorōntoin,… the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them …