King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1474
Transliteration: edaphizō
Phonetic Spelling: (ed-af-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to raze
Meaning: to raze
ἐδαφιζο: Attic future ἐδαφιω (Buttmann, 37 (32); Winers Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); (see ἔδαφος); to throw to the ground — both of cities, buildings, to raze, level with the earth, and of men; in both applications in Luke 19:44 (by zeugma (?) cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 e.). (Psalm 136:9 (); Isaiah 3:26; Ezekiel 31:12; Hosea 14:1 (Hosea 13:16); Amos 9:14 (Ald.); rare in secular writings, as (Aristotle, probl. 23, 29); Polybius 6, 33, 6.)
Word Summary
edaphizō: to raze
Original Word: ἐδαφίζωTransliteration: edaphizō
Phonetic Spelling: (ed-af-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to raze
Meaning: to raze
Strong's Concordance
lay even with the ground, razeFrom edaphos; to raze -- lay even with the ground.
see GREEK edaphos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1474: ἐδαφιζοἐδαφιζο: Attic future ἐδαφιω (Buttmann, 37 (32); Winers Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); (see ἔδαφος); to throw to the ground — both of cities, buildings, to raze, level with the earth, and of men; in both applications in Luke 19:44 (by zeugma (?) cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 e.). (Psalm 136:9