ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΣ, κατασφας
KATASPHAS, katasphas
Sounds Like: kah-tah-SFAS
Translations: slaughtering, having slaughtered, slaying, having slain, killing, having killed
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle, indicating an action completed in the past, often translated as 'having slaughtered' or 'slaughtering' in a past context. It describes someone who performs the act of slaughter or killing. It is a compound word formed from the prefix κατά (kata), meaning 'down' or 'against', and the verb σφάζω (sphazō), meaning 'to slaughter' or 'to slay'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Aorist Active Participle
Strong’s number: G2695 (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, ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΖΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΓΕΙΣ — slaughtered, slain, killed
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΓΩΣΙΝ — they may slaughter, they may slay, they may kill, they may butcher
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΖΟΝΤΕΣ — slaughtering, killing, sacrificing, slaying
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΖΟΥΣΙ — they slaughter, they kill, they butcher, they slay
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΖΩ — to slaughter, to kill, to slay, to butcher
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞ — to slaughter, to kill, to slay, to sacrifice
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΑΙ — to slaughter, to kill, to slay, to butcher
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΑΝΤΑ — having slaughtered, having slain, having sacrificed, having killed
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΑΝΤΕΣ — having slaughtered, having slain, having butchered
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΑΣ — having slaughtered, having slain, having butchered, having sacrificed
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΑΣΑ — having slaughtered, having slain, having butchered
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΑΤΕ — slay, slaughter, kill, butcher
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΕΤΕ — you will slaughter, you will kill, you will slay, you will sacrifice
- ΚΑΤΑΣΦΑΞΟΥΣΙΝ — they will slaughter, they will slay, they will butcher
- ΚΑΤΕΣΦΑΓΗΣΑΝ — they were slaughtered, they were slain
- ΚΑΤΕΣΦΑΓΜΕΝΩ — to a slaughtered one, for a slaughtered one, to a slain one, for a slain one, to a butchered one, for a butchered one
- ΚΑΤΕΣΦΑΖΟΝ — they were slaughtering, they were slaying, they were butchering
- ΚΑΤΕΣΦΑΞΑ — I slaughtered, I killed, I sacrificed, they slaughtered, they killed, they sacrificed
- ΚΑΤΕΣΦΑΞΑΝ — slaughtered, killed, sacrificed, butchered
- ΚΑΤΕΣΦΑΞΕ — slaughtered, killed, sacrificed
- ΚΑΤΕΣΦΑΞΕΝ — he slaughtered, she slaughtered, it slaughtered, he killed, she killed, it killed, he sacrificed, she sacrificed, it sacrificed
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