Strong G2849κολάζω
to punish
- Transliteration
- kolazō
- Pronunciation
- kol-ad'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From κόλος kolos (dwarf); properly to curtail that is (figuratively) to chastise (or reserve for infliction): - punish.
Detailed definition
κολάζω
(κόλος, docked), [in LXX: Dan.6:12 (13) (no Heb.), I Est.8:24, Wis.3:4 (and freq.), 1Ma.7:7, al.;]
1. to curtail, dock, prune.
2. to check, restrain.
3. to chastise, correct, punish: pass., 2Pe.2:9; mid., cause to be punished (3Ma.7:3): Act.4:21.†
(AS)
(κόλος, docked), [in LXX: Dan.6:12 (13) (no Heb.), I Est.8:24, Wis.3:4 (and freq.), 1Ma.7:7, al.;]
1. to curtail, dock, prune.
2. to check, restrain.
3. to chastise, correct, punish: pass., 2Pe.2:9; mid., cause to be punished (3Ma.7:3): Act.4:21.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2849 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- punish2
First verses
- Acts 4:21So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
- 2 Peter 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
κολάζω,
future κολάσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.136, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.29, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 714d, etc.)]: aorist ἐκόλασα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 927, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.40)]:—middle, future κολάσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 27, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.19)]; twice contraction in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus)], 2nd pers. singular κολᾷ [Refs (“Eq.” 456)], participle κολωμένους [Refs (“V.” 244)]: aorist ἐκολασάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.78, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240d)]:—passive, future -ασθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.87, etc.)]: aorist ἐκολάσθην [Refs ([prev. author] 7.68)]: perfect κεκόλασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.8, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.139)]:—check, chastise, τὰς ἐπιθυμίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 491e; τὸ πλεονάζον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.663e, etc.; τὴν ἀμετρίαν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.29)]:—passive, to be corrected, τὸ ἐν μέλιτι χολῶδες -άζεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 59, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.12)]: perfect participle passive, chastened, εὐπειθὲς καὶ κεκολ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119b12; δίαιτα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 86)]; ῥήτωρ κεκ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.149; ἰσχὺς κ. ἐς ῥυθμούς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.17.3)]; also of an athlete, ἀπέριττος τὰ μυώδη καὶ μὴ κεκ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Gym.” 31.)]
2 chastise, punish, τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1322, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 7, etc.)]; τὰ σέμν᾽ ἔπη κόλαζ᾽ ἐκείνους use your proud words in reproving them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1108: with _dative_ modi, λόγοις κ. τινά [prev. work] 1160; θανάτῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1172, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.3)]; πληγαῖς, τιμωρίαις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 784d, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.50; ἀτιμίαις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 309a)]:—middle, get a person punished, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 406, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 324c, variant 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.7)]:—passive, to be punished, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.1, etc.)]; of divine retribution, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.566e)]; suffer injury, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.24.)]
3 of a drastic method of checking the growth of the almond-tree, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.7.6)]:—passive, [Refs ([prev. author] “CP” 1.18.9; compare κόλασις 1.)]
4 passive with genitive, to be badly in need of, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (PFay. 120.5 (1st-2nd c.AD), compare 115.19 (2nd c.AD), “BGU” 249.4 (2nd c.AD).)]
future κολάσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.136, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.29, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 714d, etc.)]: aorist ἐκόλασα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 927, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.40)]:—middle, future κολάσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 27, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.19)]; twice contraction in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus)], 2nd pers. singular κολᾷ [Refs (“Eq.” 456)], participle κολωμένους [Refs (“V.” 244)]: aorist ἐκολασάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.78, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240d)]:—passive, future -ασθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.87, etc.)]: aorist ἐκολάσθην [Refs ([prev. author] 7.68)]: perfect κεκόλασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.8, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.139)]:—check, chastise, τὰς ἐπιθυμίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 491e; τὸ πλεονάζον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.663e, etc.; τὴν ἀμετρίαν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.29)]:—passive, to be corrected, τὸ ἐν μέλιτι χολῶδες -άζεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 59, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.12)]: perfect participle passive, chastened, εὐπειθὲς καὶ κεκολ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119b12; δίαιτα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 86)]; ῥήτωρ κεκ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.149; ἰσχὺς κ. ἐς ῥυθμούς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.17.3)]; also of an athlete, ἀπέριττος τὰ μυώδη καὶ μὴ κεκ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Gym.” 31.)]
2 chastise, punish, τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1322, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 7, etc.)]; τὰ σέμν᾽ ἔπη κόλαζ᾽ ἐκείνους use your proud words in reproving them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1108: with _dative_ modi, λόγοις κ. τινά [prev. work] 1160; θανάτῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1172, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.3)]; πληγαῖς, τιμωρίαις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 784d, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.50; ἀτιμίαις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 309a)]:—middle, get a person punished, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 406, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 324c, variant 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.7)]:—passive, to be punished, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.1, etc.)]; of divine retribution, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.566e)]; suffer injury, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.24.)]
3 of a drastic method of checking the growth of the almond-tree, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.7.6)]:—passive, [Refs ([prev. author] “CP” 1.18.9; compare κόλασις 1.)]
4 passive with genitive, to be badly in need of, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (PFay. 120.5 (1st-2nd c.AD), compare 115.19 (2nd c.AD), “BGU” 249.4 (2nd c.AD).)]