UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to injure severely, to maltreat

Semantic entry: 20.24

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Harm, Wound

Definition: to cause injury or harm by maltreatment

Notes: It is also possible that λυμαίνομαι in RV ACT 8:3 · LV ACT 8:3 · Read together ACT 8:3 may mean ‘to destroy’ (see 20.31: ἀπόλλυμι / 20.31: ἀπώλεια / 20.31: λυμαίνω).

Forms: λυμαίνομαι[a]

ACT 8:3: RV ACT 8:3 · LV ACT 8:3 · Read together ACT 8:3

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OET-RV ACT 8:3

3 As for Sha’ul (Saul; Grk. Saulos /Saul), he started on destroying the assembly by entering people’s homes and dragging both men and women out and then off to prison.

OET-LV ACT 8:3

3 But Saulos was _ravaging the assembly, by entering _in the houses, dragging both men and women, he _was _giving _over them to prison.

Sense 2: to ruin, to destroy, destruction

Semantic entry: 20.31

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Destroy

Definition: to destroy or to cause the destruction of persons, objects, or institutions

Notes: In a number of languages it is difficult to find a general term for ‘destruction.’ What has often happened is the extension of meaning from a more specific type of reference, for example, ‘to smash,’ to a more generic meaning of ‘to destroy,’ and whether one understands the specific or more generic meaning depends largely upon the context. Accordingly, in RV ACT 8:3 · LV ACT 8:3 · Read together ACT 8:3 one may find a figurative usage of a term meaning ‘to smash’ (though understood in a more generic sense), for example, ‘Saul then worked in order to smash the church.’|It is also possible that λυμαίνομαι in RV ACT 8:3 · LV ACT 8:3 · Read together ACT 8:3 may mean ‘to injure severely’ (see 20.24: λυμαίνω).

Forms: λυμαίνομαι[b]