Word Summary
apokteinō: to kill
Original Word: ἀποκτείνωTransliteration: apokteinō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ok-ti'-no)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to kill
Meaning: to kill
Strong's Concordance
put to death, kill, slay.
From apo and kteino (to slay); to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy -- put to death, kill, slay.
see GREEK apo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 615: ἀποκτείνωἀποκτείνω, and Aeolic,
ἀποκτέννω (
Matthew 10:28 L T Tr;
Mark 12:5 G L T Tr;
Luke 12:4 L T Tr;
2 Corinthians 3:6 T Tr; cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 507f; (
Tdf. Proleg., p. 79);
Winers Grammar, 83 (79); (
Buttmann, 61 (54))),
ἀποκτενῶ (Griesbach in
Matthew 10:28;
Luke 12:4),
ἀποκταίνω (Lachmann in
2 Corinthians 3:6;
Revelation 13:10),
ἀποκτεννυντες (
Mark 12:5 WH); future
ἀποκτενῶ; 1 aorist
ἀπέκτεινα; passive, present infinitive
ἀποκτέννεσθαι (
Revelation 6:11 G L T Tr WH); 1 aorist
ἀπεκτάνθην (Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii. 227;
Winers Grammar, the passage cited; (
Buttmann, 41 (35f))); (from
Homer down);
1. properly, to kill in any way whatever (ἀπό i. e. so as to put out of the way; cf. (English to kill off), German abschlachten): Matthew 16:21; Matthew 22:6; Mark 6:19; Mark 9:31; John 5:18; John 8:22; Acts 3:15; Revelation 2:13, and very often; (ἀποκτενῶ ἐν θανάτῳ, Revelation 2:23; Revelation 6:8, cf. Buttmann, 184 (159); Winers Grammar, 339 (319)). to destroy (allow to perish): Mark 3:4 (yet others take it here absolutely, to kill).
2. metaphorically, to extinguish, abolish: τήν ἐχτραν, Ephesians 2:16; to inflict moral death, Romans 7:11 (see ἀποθνῄσκω, II. 2); to deprive of spiritual life and procure eternal misery, 2 Corinthians 3:6 (Lachmann ἀποκταινει; see above).