4249. prizó

Strong's Lexicon

prizó: To saw, to cut with a saw

Original Word: πρίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: prizó
Pronunciation: PREE-zoh
Phonetic Spelling: (prid'-zo)
Definition: To saw, to cut with a saw
Meaning: I saw, saw through.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
alt. form of a prim. verb prió (to saw)
Definition
to saw (in two)
NASB Translation
sawn in two (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 4249: πρίζω

πρίζω (or πρίω, which see): 1 aorist passive ἐπρίσθην; to saw, to cut in two with a saw: Hebrews 11:37. To be 'sawn asunder' was a kind of punishment among the Hebrews (2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chronicles 20:3), which according to ancient tradition was inflicted on the prophet Isaiah; cf. Winers RWB, under the word Säge; Roskoff in Schenkel 5:135; (B. D., under the word ). (Amos 1:3; Susanna 59; Plato, Theag., p. 124 b. and frequent in later writings.)

STRONGS NT 4249: πρίωπρίω, see πρίζω. (Compare: διαπρίω.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

saw asunder.

A strengthened form of a primary prio (to saw); to saw in two -- saw asunder.

Forms and Transliterations

έπριζον επρισθησαν επρίσθησαν ἐπρίσθησαν epristhesan epristhēsan eprísthesan eprísthēsan

Englishman's Concordance

Hebrews 11:37 V-AIP-3P
GRK: ἐλιθάσθησαν ἐπειράσθησαν ἐπρίσθησαν ἐν φόνῳ
NAS: They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted,
KJV: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted,
INT: They were stoned they were tempted they were sawed in two by slaughter

Strong's Greek 4249
1 Occurrence

ἐπρίσθησαν — 1 Occ.