Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
slaughter
Usage: σφαγή, -ῆς, ἡ (σφάζω), [in LXX for טָבַח, הֲרֵגָה, etc. ;] slaughter: Act.8:32 (LXX); πρόβατα σφαγῆς, Rom.8:36 (LXX); ἡμέρα σφαγῆς, Jas.5:5.† (AS)
Sphage means “slaughter” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4967 — methushael (“Methusael”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4967 σφαγή (sphage) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sphage (sfag-ay') n. 1. butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice) 2. (figuratively) butchery of men (destruction) It has 28 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include slaughter. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
sphage (sfag-ay') n. 1. butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice) 2. (figuratively) butchery of men (destruction) [from G4969] KJV: slaughter Root(s): G4969
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slaughter
Usage: σφαγή, -ῆς, ἡ (σφάζω), [in LXX for טָבַח, הֲרֵגָה, etc. ;] slaughter: Act.8:32 (LXX); πρόβατα σφαγῆς, Rom.8:36 (LXX); ἡμέρα σφαγῆς, Jas.5:5.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sphage, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4967 (σφαγή) appears 25 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
20 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; For again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
Let his eyes see his own destruction, And let him not be saved by the Lord.
And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: And if they grow up, they shall beg.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
but Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.
Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.
and took the city by the will of God, and made unspeakable slaughters, insomuch that a lake two furlongs broad near adjoining thereunto, being filled full, was seen running with blood.
2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement -thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be
Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4967.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; For again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
Let his eyes see his own destruction, And let him not be saved by the Lord.
And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: And if they grow up, they shall beg.
For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are counted as sheep for slaughter.
And that as an ox is led to the slaughter, And as a dog to bonds, Or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Edom.
And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
I will deliver you up to the sword, ye shall all fall by slaughter: for I called you, and ye hearkened not; I spoke, and ye refused to hear; and ye did evil in my sight, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.
But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.
And I will punish them with four kinds of death, saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial place of the son of Hinnom, but, The burial place of slaughter.
Dry ye up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
And bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams.
and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate—they are given up to the slaughter of the sword: it is well fitted for slaughter, it is well fitted for glittering.
Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever.
Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Feed the sheep of the slaughter;
And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Canaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
but Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.
Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.
and took the city by the will of God, and made unspeakable slaughters, insomuch that a lake two furlongs broad near adjoining thereunto, being filled full, was seen running with blood.
From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement -thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be
Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4967, grouped by book.
Sphage (Strong's G4967) is a Greek word most simply glossed "slaughter". sphage (sfag-ay') n. 1. butchery (of animals for food or sacrifice) 2. (figuratively) butchery of men (destruction)
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's G4967 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4967 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as slaughter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 20 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4967, with linked reader references where each row is available.