What does κατασφάττω (kataspháttō) mean in the Bible?
κατασφάττω (kataspháttō): Violent slaughter emphasizing complete or thorough destruction, often of multiple victims or wholesale killing.
Greek · G2695
κατασφάττω
To slaughter
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κατασφάττω G2695
Pronunciation kataspháttō
What does κατασφάττω (kataspháttō) mean in the Bible?
κατασφάττω (kataspháttō): Violent slaughter emphasizing complete or thorough destruction, often of multiple victims or wholesale killing.
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How does the BSB render G2695?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include slay (1).
Where does κατασφάττω (kataspháttō) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 19:27. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It slay 1× Luke 19:27
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First aligned row Luke 19:27
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Luke 1
Source forms
κατασφάξατε 1x katasphaxate Luke 19:27
Parsing patterns
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural 1x Luke 19:27
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Violent slaughter emphasizing complete or thorough destruction, often of multiple victims or wholesale killing.
Source Gloss
to slaughter
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Violent slaughter emphasizing complete or thorough destruction, often of multiple victims or wholesale killing.
to kill off, slay: with accusative, Luk.19:27.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 19:27 Verb Second Person Plural Aorist Active Imperative
κατασφάξατε katasfaxate
I slaughter
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 1 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
aorist 1
Voice
active 1
Mood
imperative 1
NT Occurrences
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Sampled Scripture Occurrences
Representative Scripture witnesses for this entry: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
Luke 19:11–27 ἀπέκτειναν kataspháttō
Slay
Word Origins
κατασφάττω is built from these roots:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain