Kolazo means “punish” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2849 — chathchath (“fear”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2849 κολάζω (kolazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kolazo (kol-ad'-zo) v. 1. (properly) to curtail 2. (figuratively) to chastise (or reserve for infliction) It has 23 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include punish and reserve. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kolazo (kol-ad'-zo) v. 1. (properly) to curtail 2. (figuratively) to chastise (or reserve for infliction) [from kolos "dwarf"] KJV: punish
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2849. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to punish
Usage: κολάζω (κόλος, docked), [in LXX: Dan.6:12 (13) (no Heb.), I Est.8:24, Wis.3:4 (and freq.), 1Ma.7:7, al. ;] __1. to curtail, dock, prune. __2. to check, restrain. __3. to chastise, correct, punish: pass., 2Pe.2:9; mid., cause to be punished (3Ma.7:3): Act.4:21.† (AS)
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Strong's G2849 (κολάζω) appears 21 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
21 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.
Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what havoc he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.
For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fullness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2849.
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.
Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what havoc he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.
For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fullness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis.
Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment.
Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way;
And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.
Put confidence in me, then, and you shall receive places of authority in my government, if you forsake your national ordinance,
And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,
For though they be punished in the sight of men, Yet is their hope full of immortality.
For by what things their enemies were punished, By the same they in their need were benefited.
Declaring by that thirst then how Thou hadst punished their adversaries.
That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same shall he be punished.
Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast punished.
Forsomuch then as thou art righteous thyself, thou orderest all things righteously: Thinking it not agreeable with thy power To condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished.
For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, That is, for them whom they thought to be gods; now being punished in them, When they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom before they denied to know; And therefore came extreme damnation upon them.
For that which is made shall be punished together with him that made it.
Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, And by the multitude of beasts tormented.
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, Neither was there found any remedy for their life: For they were worthy to be punished by such.
The master and the servant were punished after one manner; And like as the king, so suffered the common person.
So he overcame the destroyer, not with might of body, Nor force of arms, But with a word subdued him that punished, Alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2849, grouped by book.
Kolazo (Strong's G2849) is a Greek word most simply glossed "punish". kolazo (kol-ad'-zo) v. 1. (properly) to curtail 2. (figuratively) to chastise (or reserve for infliction)
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's G2849 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2849 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as punish and reserve. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 21 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2849, with linked reader references where each row is available.