STRONGS G2856:
κολοβόω,
κολοβω: 1 aorist
ἐκολοβωσα; passive, 1 aorist
ἐκολοβωθην; 1 future
κολοβωθήσομαι; (from
κολοβός lopped, mutilated);
to cut off (
τάς χεῖρας,
2 Samuel 4:12;
τούς πόδας,
Aristotle, h. a. 1, 1 (p. 487, 24);
τήν ῤῖνα,
Diodorus 1, 78);
to mutilate (
Polybius 1, 80, 13); hence in the N. T. of time (
Vulg.brevio)
to shorten, abridge, curtail:
Matthew 24:22;
Mark 13:20.
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