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Strong's G4969 σφάζω (sphazo)

Sphazo means “kill” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4969 — mathach (“spread out”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4969
Language Greek
Linked Usages 81
Books 18

Strong's G4969 Quick Answer

Strong's G4969 σφάζω (sphazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sphazo (sfad'-zo) v. 1. to butcher (especially an animal for food or in sacrifice) 2. (generally) to slaughter It has 81 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include kill. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
sphazo (sfad'-zo) v. 1. to butcher (especially an animal for food or in sacrifice) 2. (generally) to slaughter
Usage
81 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
kill

Meaning and Definition

sphazo (sfad'-zo) v. 1. to butcher (especially an animal for food or in sacrifice) 2. (generally) to slaughter 3. (specially) to maim (violently) [a primary verb] KJV: kill, slay, wound

Original Word
σφάζω
Transliteration
sphazo
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4969. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to slaughter

Usage: σφάζω [in LXX chiefly for שָׁחַט ;] to slay, slaughter (esp. of victims for sacrifice): ἀρνίον, Rev.5:6, 12 13:8; of persons, 1Jn.3:12, Rev.5:9 6:4, 9 18:24; ἐσφαγμένη εἰς θάνατον (RV, smitten unto death), Rev.13:3 (cf. κατα-σφάζω).† (AS)

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How Strong's G4969 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sphazo, 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.

How Strong's G4969 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 69 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4969 (σφάζω) appears 83 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4969 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G4969 in the New Testament

9 indexed usages in New Testament.

1 John 3:12 KJV

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Revelation 5:6 KJV

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Revelation 5:9 KJV

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Strong's G4969 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

69 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 22:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And Abraham stretched forth his hand to take the knife to slay his son.

Genesis 37:31 Septuagint / Brenton

And having taken the coat of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood.

Genesis 43:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and slay beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon.

Strong's G4969 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 1:2 Septuagint / Brenton

and made many wars, and won many strongholds, and slew the kings of the earth,

1 Maccabees 2:24 Septuagint / Brenton

Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to show his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.

2 Maccabees 5:14 Septuagint / Brenton

And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.

Usage Excerpts

First 81 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4969.

Genesis 22:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham stretched forth his hand to take the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 37:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having taken the coat of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood.
Genesis 43:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and slay beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon.
Exodus 12:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be kept by you till the fourteenth of this month, and all the multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it toward evening.
Exodus 21:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if one steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus 29:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt slay the calf before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.
Exodus 29:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt kill it, and take the blood and pour it on the altar round about.
Exodus 29:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt kill it, and take of the blood of it, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet.
Exodus 34:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifices with leaven, neither shall the sacrifices of the feast of the Passover remain till the morning.
Leviticus 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall slay the calf before the Lord; and the sons of Aaron the priests shall bring the blood, and they shall pour the blood round about on the altar, which is at the doors of the tabernacle of witness.
Leviticus 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hand on its head; and they shall kill it by the side of the altar, toward the north before the Lord, and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour its blood on the altar round about.
Leviticus 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hands on the head of the gift, and shall slay it before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. And the priests the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood on the altar of burnt offerings round about.
Leviticus 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hands on the head of his offering, and shall slay it by the doors of the tabernacle of witness; and the priests the sons of Aaron shall pour out the blood on the altar round about.
Leviticus 3:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hands on its head; and they shall slay it before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness; and the priests the sons of Aaron shall pour out the blood on the altar round about.
Leviticus 4:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord, and he shall put his hand on the head of the calf before the Lord, and shall slay the calf in the presence of the Lord.
Leviticus 4:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the calf before the Lord, and they shall slay the calf before the Lord.
Leviticus 4:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the kid, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the victims for whole burnt offerings before the Lord; it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 4:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hand on the head of his sin offering, and they shall slay the kid of the sin offering in the place where they slay the victims for whole burnt offerings.
Leviticus 4:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the victims for whole burnt offerings.
Leviticus 6:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering—in the place where they slay the whole burnt offering, they shall slay the sin offerings before the Lord: they are most holy.
Leviticus 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the place where they slay the whole burnt offering, they shall slay the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord, and he shall pour out the blood at the bottom of the altar round about.
Leviticus 8:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger; and he purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement upon it.
Leviticus 8:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he divided the ram by its limbs, and Moses offered the head, and the limbs, and the fat; and he washed the belly and the feet with water.
Leviticus 8:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses brought near the sons of Aaron; and Moses put of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet, and Moses poured out the blood on the altar round about.
Leviticus 9:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Aaron drew nigh to the altar, and slew the calf of his sin offering.
Leviticus 9:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he slew the whole burnt offering; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he poured it on the altar round about.
Leviticus 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought the gift of the people, and took the goat of the sin offering of the people, and slew it, and purified it as also the first.
Leviticus 9:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he slew the calf, and the ram of the sacrifice of peace offering of the people; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he poured it out on the altar round about.
Leviticus 14:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall give direction, and they shall kill one bird over an earthen vessel over running water.
Leviticus 14:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for the living bird he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird into the blood of the bird that was slain over running water.
Leviticus 14:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the whole burnt offerings, and the sin offerings, in the holy places; for it is a sin offering: as the trespass offering, it belongs to the priest, it is most holy.
Leviticus 14:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall sacrifice the sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the person under purification to cleanse him from his sin, and afterward the priest shall slay the whole burnt offering.
Leviticus 14:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall slay the lamb of the trespass offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is under purification, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:50 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall slay one bird in an earthen vessel over running water.
Leviticus 14:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and the living bird; and shall dip it into the blood of the bird slain over running water, and with them he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
Leviticus 16:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Aaron shall bring the calf for his sin, and he shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and he shall kill the calf for his sin offering.
Leviticus 16:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall kill the goat for the sin offering that is for the people, before the Lord; and he shall bring in of its blood within the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy seat, in front of the mercy seat.
Leviticus 17:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or who shall kill it out of the camp,
Leviticus 17:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to sacrifice it for a whole burnt offering or peace offering to the Lord to be acceptable for a sweet-smelling savor: and whosoever shall slay it without, and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed to that man, he has shed blood; that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 17:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
That the children of Israel may offer their sacrifices, all that they shall slay in the fields, and bring them to the Lord unto the doors of the tabernacle of witness to the priest, and they shall sacrifice them as a peace offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 22:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a bullock and a ewe, it and its young, thou shalt not kill in one day.
Numbers 11:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them?
Numbers 19:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt give her to Eleazar the priest; and they shall bring her out of the camp into a clean place, and shall kill her before his face.
Deuteronomy 28:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy calf shall be slain before thee, and thou shalt not eat of it; thine ass shall be violently taken away from thee, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have no helper.
1 Kingdoms 1:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they brought him before the Lord; and his father slew his offering which he offered from year to year to the Lord; and he brought near the child, and slew the calf; and Hannah the mother of the child brought him to Eli.
1 Kingdoms 14:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people turned to the spoil; and the people took flocks, and herds, and calves, and slew them on the ground, and the people ate with the blood.
1 Kingdoms 14:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them to bring hither every one his calf, and every one his sheep: and let them slay it on this stone and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood: and the people brought each one that which was in his hand, and they slew them there.
1 Kingdoms 15:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel said to Agag, As thy sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall thy mother be made childless among women: and Samuel slew Agag before the Lord in Gilgal.
3 Kingdoms 18:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah said to the people, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Elijah brings them down to the brook Kishon, and he slew them there.
4 Kingdoms 10:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew them, even seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
4 Kingdoms 10:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Take them alive. And they slew them at the shearing house, forty and two men: he left not a man of them.
4 Kingdoms 25:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
Ezra 6:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Psalms 36:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Sinners have drawn their swords, They have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy one, And to slay the upright in heart.
Proverbs 9:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
She has killed her beasts; She has mingled her wine in a bowl, And prepared her table.
Isaiah 14:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.
Isaiah 22:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
Isaiah 57:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying your children in the valleys among the rocks?
Jeremiah 19:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 48:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, that he slew them and cast them into a pit.
Jeremiah 52:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Ezekiel 16:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation.
Ezekiel 21:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that thou mayest slay victims; be sharpened that thou mayest be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.
Ezekiel 23:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of my house;
Ezekiel 34:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep.
Ezekiel 40:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that they might slay in it the sin offerings, and the trespass offerings.
Ezekiel 40:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.
Ezekiel 40:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were four tables of hewn stone for whole burnt offerings, the breadth of them was a cubit and a half, and the length of them two cubits and a half, and their height was a cubit: on them they shall place the instruments with which they slay there the whole burnt offerings and the victims.
Ezekiel 44:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet they shall minister in my sanctuary, being porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall slay the victims and the whole burnt offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.
1 John 3:12 New Testament, KJV
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Revelation 5:6 New Testament, KJV
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Revelation 5:9 New Testament, KJV
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Revelation 5:12 New Testament, KJV
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
Revelation 6:4 New Testament, KJV
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Revelation 6:9 New Testament, KJV
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Revelation 13:3 New Testament, KJV
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation 13:8 New Testament, KJV
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 18:24 New Testament, KJV
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
1 Maccabees 1:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and made many wars, and won many strongholds, and slew the kings of the earth,
1 Maccabees 2:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to show his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.
2 Maccabees 5:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4969, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 32 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 John 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 8 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4969 FAQ

What does sphazo (σφάζω) mean?

Sphazo (Strong's G4969) is a Greek word most simply glossed "kill". sphazo (sfad'-zo) v. 1. to butcher (especially an animal for food or in sacrifice) 2. (generally) to slaughter

How many times is sphazo (σφάζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 81 linked usages for Strong's G4969 across 18 books.

Where can I study sphazo (σφάζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4969 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate sphazo (σφάζω)?

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Does Strong's G4969 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 69 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4969, with linked reader references where each row is available.