“properly, to rush (breathe hard, blow, smoke), i.e. (by implication) to sacrifice (properly, by fire, but genitive case); by extension to immolate (slaughter for any purpose)”
Definition
Strong’s Definition
properly, to rush (breathe hard, blow, smoke), i.e. (by implication) to sacrifice (properly, by fire, but genitive case); by extension to immolate (slaughter for any purpose)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
to offer; to kill in sacrifice, sacrifice, immolate, Acts 14:13, 18; in NT to slaughter for food, Mt. 22:4
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
a primary verb;
Chain Links
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“Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.”