Word Summary
tartaroō: to cast into hell
Original Word: ταρταρόωTransliteration: tartaroō
Phonetic Spelling: (tar-tar-o'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cast into hell
Meaning: to cast into hell
Strong's Concordance
cast into hell.
From Tartaros (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment -- cast down to hell.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5020: ταρταρόωταρταρόω,
ταρτάρῳ: 1 aorist participle
ταρταρώσας; (
τάρταρος, the name of a subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to the Gehenna of the Jews, see
γηννα);
to thrust down to Tartarus (sometimes in the Scholiasts) (cf.
Winers Grammar, 25 (24) n.);
to hold captive in Tartarus:
τινα σειραῖς (which see)
σοφοῦ,
2 Peter 2:4 (
A. V. cast down to hell (making the dative depend on
παρέδωκεν)).