ἈΠΕΣΦΑΓΗΣΑΝ, ἀπεσφαγησαν
APESPHAGĒSAN, apesphagēsan
Sounds Like: ah-pes-fah-GAY-san
Translations: they were slaughtered, they were slain, they were butchered
From the root: ΑΠΟΣΦΑΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the act of being slaughtered or slain, often violently. It is used to indicate that a group of people or animals were killed in a brutal or sacrificial manner. It implies a complete and decisive act of killing.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Passive, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G0624 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΠΟΣΦΑΖΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΕΣΦΑΓΜΕΝΟΙΣ — to those who have been slain, to those who have been slaughtered, to those who have been butchered
- ἈΠΕΣΦΑΓΜΕΝΩΝ — of those slaughtered, of those slain, of those butchered
- ἈΠΟΣΦΑΞΑΝΤΕΣ — having slaughtered, having slain, having cut the throat
- ΑΠΕΣΦΑΤΤΟΝ — they were slaughtering, they were slaying, they were butchering
- ΑΠΟΣΦΑΓΕΙΕΝ — they might be slaughtered, they would be slaughtered, they might be slain, they would be slain
- ΑΠΟΣΦΑΓΕΝΤΩΝ — of those having been slain, of those having been slaughtered, of those having been sacrificed
- ΑΠΟΣΦΑΓΗΝΑΙ — to be slain, to be slaughtered, to be killed, to be sacrificed
- ΑΠΟΣΦΑΖΩ — to slaughter, to kill, to slay
- ΑΠΟΣΦΑΞΑΝΤΑΣ — having slaughtered, having slain, having butchered
- ΑΠΟΣΦΑΞΑΝΤΕΣ — having slaughtered, having slain, having killed, having sacrificed
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