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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #1474 - ἐδαφίζω

Transliteration

edaphízō

Phonetics

ed-af-id'-zo

Origin

from (G1475)

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to throw to the ground
1. both of cities and buildings, to raze, level with the earth
2. metaph. of men

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 3427 ‑ יָשַׁב (yaw‑shab'); 5310 ‑ נָפַץ (naw‑fats'); 5428 ‑ נָתַשׁ (naw‑thash'); 7376 ‑ רָטַשׁ (raw‑tash');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (2)

Luke 2

BSB (1)

Luke 1

CSB (1)

Luke 1

ESV (1)

Luke 1

KJV (2)

Luke 2

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (4)

Luke 4

N95 (2)

Luke 2

NAS (4)

Luke 2

NLT (1)

Luke 3

WEB (2)

Luke 2

YLT (1)

Luke 1

ASV (2)

shall dash 1

to the ground 1

BSB (1)

they will level you to the ground 1

CSB (1)

the ground 1

ESV (1)

ground 1

KJV (2)

ground 1

lay 1

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (4)

ground 1

level 1

the 1

to 1

N95 (2)

ground 1

level 1

NAS (4)

ground 1

level 1

the 1

to 1

NLT (1)

ground 1

WEB (2)

to the ground 1

will dash 1

YLT (1)

low 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

ANT

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

BEZ

V-FAI-3P 1

BGB

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

BMT

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

BYZ

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

ELZ

V-FAI-3P 1

NA26

V-3FAIP 1

SBL

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

SCV

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

STV

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

TIS

V-FAI-3P-ATT 1

V-FAI-3P 1

TRG

V-FAI-3P 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἐδᾰφ-ίζω,

I beat level and firm like a floor or pavement, Plb. 6.33.6, Thphr. HP 9.3.1: — Pass., Id. CP 4.8.2, Arist. Pr. 934b10.

II provide with a floor, οἶκον IG 11(2).158 A 66 (iii B. C.), cf. BCH 29.475.

III dash to the ground, LXX Psalms 136:9(137).9, Luke 19:44.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἐδαφιζο: Attic future ἐδαφιω (Buttmann, 37 (32); Winers Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); (see ἔδαφος); to throw to the ground — both of cities, buildings, to raze, level with the earth, and of men; in both applications in Luke 19:44 (by zeugma (?) cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 e.). (Psalm 136:9 (); Isaiah 3:26; Ezekiel 31:12; Hosea 14:1 (Hosea 13:16); Amos 9:14 (Ald.); rare in secular writings, as (Aristotle, probl. 23, 29); Polybius 6, 33, 6.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἐδαφίζω

(< ἔδαφος ),

[in LXX chiefly for H7376 pu.;]

1. to beat level like a threshing floor (Theophr.).

2. to dash to the ground (Field, Notes, 74): Luke 19:44 (cf. Psalms 137:9, Hosea 14:1).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

In support of the RV rendering in Luke 19:44 ";and shall dash thee to the ground,"; see Field Notes, p. 74. We have not come across any example of the verb in the papyri or the inscrr. though the subst (see s.v.) is common.

List of Word Forms

εδαφιεί εδαφιούσί εδαφιουσιν εδαφιούσιν ἐδαφιοῦσίν εδαφισθήσεται εδαφισθήση ηδάφισαν edaphiousin edaphioûsín