σταυρόω

σταυρόω — stauróō

σταυρόω, σταυρῷ; future σταυρώσω; 1 aorist ἐσταυρωσα; passive, present σταύρομαι; perfect ἐσταύρωμαι; 1 aorist ἐσταυρωθην; (σταυρός, which see);

1. to stake, drive down stakes: Thucydides 7, 25, 6 (here οἱ Συρακοσιοι ἐσταύρωσαν, which the Scholiast renders σταυρους κατέπηξαν).

2. to fortify with driven stakes, to palisade: a place, Thucydides 6, 100; Diodorus

3. to crucify (Vulg.crucifigo): τινα,

a. properly: Mat 20:19; Mat 23:34; Mat 26:2; Mat 27:22,,;; Mark 15:13-15, 20, 24f, 27; Mar 16:6; Luk 23:21; Luk 23:23; Luk 23:33; Luk 24:7; Luk 24:20; John 19:6, 10, 15f, 18, 20, 23, 41; Act 2:36; Act 4:10; 1Co 1:13; 1Co 1:23; 1Co 2:2,(8); 2Co 13:4; Gal 3:1; Rev 11:8 (Additions to Est 8:13 (34) [Esther 8:348:12r]; for תָּלָה, to hang, Est 7:9. Polybius 1, 86, 4; Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 4; 17, 10, 10; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 53 and 56; in native Greek writings ἀνασταυρουν is more common).

b. metaphorically: τήν σάρκα, to crucify the flesh, destroy its power utterly (the nature of the figure implying that the destruction is attended with intense pain (but note the aorist)), Gal 5:24; ἐσταύρωμαι τίνι, and ἐσταύρωται μοι τί, I have been crucified to something and it has been crucified to me, so that we are dead to each other all fellowship and contact between us has ceased, Gal 6:14. (Compare: ἀνασταυρόω, σὑν᾿σταυρόω.)