Gloss
to kill (either natural life or spiritual life)
Forms of the word
Dictionary
ἀποκτείνω
Greek transliteration
apokteinō
Simplified transliteration
apokteino
Principal Parts
ἀποκτενῶ, ἀπέκτεινα, -, -, ἀπεκτάνθην
Numbers
Strong's number
615
GK Number
650
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
74
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
cv-2d(5)
Definition
also spelled ἀποκτέννω or ἀποκτένω, to kill, Mt. 14:5; to destroy, annihilate, Mt. 10:28; to destroy a hostile principle, Eph. 2:16; met. to kill by spiritual condemnation, Rom. 7:11; 2 Cor. 3:6
Greek-English Concordance for ἀποκτείνω
| Luke 12:4 | “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who can kill (apokteinontōn | ἀποκτεινόντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. |
| Luke 12:5 | I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after he kills (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ), has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear this one! |
| Luke 13:4 | Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed (apekteinen | ἀπέκτεινεν | aor act ind 3 sg) them — do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? |
| Luke 13:31 | In that very hour some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Leave and get away from here, for Herod wants to (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) kill (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) you.” |
| Luke 13:34 | “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills (apokteinousa | ἀποκτείνουσα | pres act ptcp voc sg fem) the prophets and stones those who have been sent to it! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you did not want it! |
| Luke 18:33 | Then after scourging him, they will kill (apoktenousin | ἀποκτενοῦσιν | fut act ind 3 pl) him, but on the third day he will arise again.” |
| Luke 20:14 | When the tenants saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill (apokteinōmen | ἀποκτείνωμεν | aor act subj 1 pl) him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ |
| Luke 20:15 | And they (apekteinan | ἀπέκτειναν | aor act ind 3 pl) threw him out of the vineyard and killed (apekteinan | ἀπέκτειναν | aor act ind 3 pl) him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? |
| John 5:18 | This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) kill (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) him, because he not only used to break the Sabbath, but he also was calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God. |
| John 7:1 | After this Jesus traveled about in Galilee; he chose not to remain in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) kill (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) him. |
| John 7:19 | “Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) kill (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) me?” |
| John 7:20 | The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is trying to (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) kill (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) you?” |
| John 7:25 | Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf )? |
| John 8:22 | So the Jews said, “Surely he (apoktenei | ἀποκτενεῖ | fut act ind 3 sg) is (apoktenei | ἀποκτενεῖ | fut act ind 3 sg) not going to kill (apoktenei | ἀποκτενεῖ | fut act ind 3 sg) himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” |
| John 8:37 | I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; but you are intent on killing (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) me, because my teaching makes no headway in you. |
| John 8:40 | But now you are intent on killing (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did! |
| John 11:53 | So from that day on they planned to put him to death (apokteinōsin | ἀποκτείνωσιν | aor act subj 3 pl). |
| John 12:10 | So the chief priests made plans to put (apokteinōsin | ἀποκτείνωσιν | aor act subj 3 pl) Lazarus to (apokteinōsin | ἀποκτείνωσιν | aor act subj 3 pl) death (apokteinōsin | ἀποκτείνωσιν | aor act subj 3 pl) as well, |
| John 16:2 | They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when anyone who kills (apokteinas | ἀποκτείνας | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) you will think he is offering a service to God. |
| John 18:31 | Then Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put any one to death.” (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) |
| Acts 3:15 | and you (apekteinate | ἀπεκτείνατε | aor act ind 2 pl) killed (apekteinate | ἀπεκτείνατε | aor act ind 2 pl) the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. |
| Acts 7:52 | Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed (apekteinan | ἀπέκτειναν | aor act ind 3 pl) those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers! |
| Acts 21:31 | And while they were trying to (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) kill (apokteinai | ἀποκτεῖναι | aor act inf ) him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the detachment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. |
| Acts 23:12 | When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed (apokteinōsin | ἀποκτείνωσιν | aor act subj 3 pl) Paul. |
| Acts 23:14 | These went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food until we have killed (apokteinōmen | ἀποκτείνωμεν | aor act subj 1 pl) Paul. |
