Word Summary
anastauroō: to crucify again
Original Word: ἀνασταυρόωTransliteration: anastauroō
Phonetic Spelling: (an-as-tow-ro'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to crucify again
Meaning: to crucify again
Strong's Concordance
crucify again.
From ana and stauroo; to recrucify (figuratively) -- crucify afresh.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK stauroo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 388: ἀνασταυρόωἀνασταυρόω,
ἀνασταύρω;
to raise up upon a cross, crucify, (
ἀνά as in
ἀνασκολοπίζω):
Hebrews 6:6 (very often in Greek writings from
Herodotus down). Cf.
Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iii., p. 9f; (
Winer admits that in Hebrews, the passage cited the meaning to crucify
again, or
afresh, may also he assigned to this verb legitimately, and that the absence of a precedent in secular writings for such a sense is, from the nature of the case, not surprising).