King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3990
Transliteration: pelekizō
Phonetic Spelling: (pel-ek-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cut off with an ax, to behead
Meaning: to cut off with an ax, to behead
πελεκίζω: perfect passive participle πεπελεκισμενος; (πέλεκυς, an axe or two-edged hatchet); to cut off with an axe, to behead: τινα, Revelation 20:4. (Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo, Josephus, Antiquities 20, 5, 4; Plutarch, Ant. 36; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 26 (25)).)
Word Summary
pelekizō: to cut off with an ax, to behead
Original Word: πελεκίζωTransliteration: pelekizō
Phonetic Spelling: (pel-ek-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cut off with an ax, to behead
Meaning: to cut off with an ax, to behead
Strong's Concordance
behead. From a derivative of plesso (meaning an axe); to chop off (the head), i.e. Truncate -- behead.
see GREEK plesso
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3990: πελεκίζωπελεκίζω: perfect passive participle πεπελεκισμενος; (πέλεκυς, an axe or two-edged hatchet); to cut off with an axe, to behead: τινα, Revelation 20:4. (Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo, Josephus, Antiquities 20, 5, 4; Plutarch, Ant. 36; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 26 (25)).)