Lexical Summary anastauroō: to crucify again Original Word: ἀνασταυρόωTransliteration: anastauroō Phonetic Spelling: (an-as-tow-ro'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to crucify again Meaning: to crucify again Strong's Concordance crucify again. From ana and stauroo; to recrucify (figuratively) -- crucify afresh. see GREEK ana see GREEK stauroo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 388: ἀνασταυρόωἀνασταυρόω, ἀνασταύρω; to raise up upon a cross, crucify, (ἀνά as in ἀνασκολοπίζω): Hebrews 6:6 (very often in Greek writings from Herodotus down). Cf. Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iii., p. 9f; (Winer admits that in Hebrews, the passage cited the meaning to crucify again, or afresh, may also he assigned to this verb legitimately, and that the absence of a precedent in secular writings for such a sense is, from the nature of the case, not surprising). |
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