Edaphizo means “lay even with the ground” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1474 — golan in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1474 ἐδαφίζω (edaphizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. edaphizo (ed-af-id'-zo) v. 1. to raze [from G1475] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include lay. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
edaphizo (ed-af-id'-zo) v. 1. to raze [from G1475] KJV: lay even with the ground Root(s): G1475
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to raze
Usage: ἐδαφίζω (ἔδαφος) [in LXX chiefly for רטשׁ pu. ;] __1. to beat level like a threshing floor (Theophr.). __2. to dash to the ground (Field, Notes, 74): Luk.19:44 (cf. Psa.136(137):9, Hos.14:1). † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render edaphizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G1474 (ἐδαφίζω) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash thine infants against the rock.
And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.
And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1474.
Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash thine infants against the rock.
And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.
And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people, and all thy strong places shall be ruined: as prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,
Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up.
Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
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Edaphizo (Strong's G1474) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lay even with the ground". edaphizo (ed-af-id'-zo) v. 1. to raze [from G1475]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G1474 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1474 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lay. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G1474, with linked reader references where each row is available.