Greek noun (feminine) · G4967
σφαγή
sphagesfag-ay'
slaughter
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sphagḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4967is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4967
butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice, or (figuratively) of men (destruction))
The King James renders it: slaughter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sphage is rendered "slaughter". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 8:32The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
Acts 8:32σφαγὴν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- of slaughter2
- slaughter1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σφάγιον | sphagion | sacrificial victim | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σφαγῆς2
- σφαγὴν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Acts
one use
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- σφαγὴνsphagennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: slaughter
Romans
one use
As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
- σφαγῆςsphagesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of slaughter
James
one use
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
- σφαγῆςsphagesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of slaughter
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.