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Strong's #4717 - σταυρόω
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- to stake, drive down stakes
- to fortify with driven stakes, to palisade
- to crucify
- to crucify one
- metaph. to crucify the flesh, destroy its power utterly (the nature of the figure implying that the destruction is attended with intense pain)
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σταυρ-όω, ( σταυρός )
fence with pales, Th. 7.25; ς. τὰ βάθη ξύλοις D.S. 24.1: — Pass., Th. 6.100 .
II crucify, Plb. 1.86.4, Ev.Matthew 20:19, Critodem. in Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(4).200: metaph., ς. τὴν σάρκα crucify it, destroy its power, Ep.Galatians 5:24; cf. Galatians 6:14 : ἧλος ἐσταυρωμένος nail from a cross, as amulet, Asclep.Jun. ap. Alex.Trall. 1.15 .
σταυρόω, σταυρῷ; future σταυρώσω; 1 aorist ἐσταυρωσα; passive, present σταύρομαι; perfect ἐσταύρωμαι; 1 aorist ἐσταυρωθην; (σταυρός, which see);
1. to stake, drive down stakes: Thucydides 7, 25, 6 (here οἱ Συρακοσιοι ἐσταύρωσαν, which the Scholiast renders σταυρους κατέπηξαν).
2. to fortify with driven stakes, to palisade: a place, Thucydides 6, 100; Diodorus
3. to crucify (Vulg. crucifigo): τινα,
a. properly: Matthew 20:19; Matthew 23:34; Matthew 26:2; Matthew 27:22,(
b. metaphorically: τήν σάρκα, to crucify the flesh, destroy its power utterly (the nature of the figure implying that the destruction is attended with intense pain (but note the aorist)), Galatians 5:24; ἐσταύρωμαι τίνι, and ἐσταύρωται μοι τί, I have been crucified to something and it has been crucified to me, so that we are dead to each other all fellowship and contact between us has ceased, Galatians 6:14. (Compare: ἀνασταυρόω, σὑν᾿σταυρόω.)
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σταυρόω , -ῶ
(< σταυρός ),
[in LXX: Esther 7:9 (H8518), Esther 8:13*;]
1. to fence with pales, impalisade (Thuc.).
2. In late writers (Polyb., FlJ; but ἀνασταυρόω is more common) to crucify: c. acc pers., Matthew 20:19; Matthew 23:34; Matthew 26:2; Matthew 27:22 ff. Matthew 28:5, Mark 15:16 ff. Mark 16:6, Luke 23:21; Luke 23:23; Luke 23:33; Luke 24:7; Luke 24:20, John 19:6 ff., Acts 2:36; Acts 4:10, 1 Corinthians 1:13; 1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 2:2; 1 Corinthians 2:8, 2 Corinthians 13:4, Galatians 3:1, Revelation 11:8; metaph., Galatians 5:24; Galatians 6:14.†
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";reason together"; (Luke 20:5), is found with the meaning ";compute"; in such passages as P Tebt I. 82.3 (B.C. 115), P Lond 259.137 (A.D. 90–5) (= II. p. 41), and Syll 510 (=.3 364).13 (after B.C. 297) συλλογισάμενοι τό τε δάνεον καὶ τὴν τίμη [σιν.
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