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“slew,” metaphorically of sin, as using the commandment; Eph. 2:16, “having slain,” said
metaphorically of the enmity between Jew and Gentile. See
KILL
, No. 1.
Note:
Some mss. have it in John 5:16 (
KJV
, “to slay”).
2.
(
$!
, 337), “to take away, destroy, kill,” is rendered “to slay” in Matt.
2:16; Acts 2:23; 5:33, 36; 9:29,
KJV
(
RV
, “to kill”); 10:39; 13:28; 22:20; 23:15,
RV
; in 2
Thess. 2:8 the best texts have this verb (for
, “to consume,”
KJV
and
RV
marg.);
hence the
RV
, “shall slay,” of the destruction of the man of sin. See
KILL
, No. 2.
3.
or
(
1
, 4969), “to slay,” especially of victims for sacrifice (akin
to
: see
SLAUGHTER
), is used (a) of taking human life, 1 John 3:12 (twice); Rev.
6:4,
RV
, “slay” (
KJV
, “kill”); in 13:3, probably of assassination,
RV
, “smitten (unto
death),”
KJV
, “wounded (to death),”
RV
marg., “slain;” 18:24; (b) of Christ, as the Lamb
of sacrifice, Rev. 5:6, 9, 12; 6:9; 13:8. See
KILL
, No. 7.¶
4.
(
1
, 2695V), “to kill off” (
, used intensively, and No.
3), is used in Luke 19:27.¶. In the Sept., Ezek. 16:40; Zech. 11:5.¶
5.
(
$&
, 1315), “to lay hands on, kill,” is translated “slew” in
Acts 5:30. See
KILL
, No. 6.
6.
$
(
"
, 5407), “to kill, to murder,” is rendered “ye slew” in Matt.
23:35. See
KILL
, No. 4.
Note:
For
$
, Acts 11:7,
KJV
, “slay” (
RV
, “kill”), see
KILL
, No. 3.
For
SLAIN BEASTS
see
BEAST
, No. 5
For
SLEEP
see
ASLEEP
SLEIGHT
$
(or — ) (
&
, 2940) denotes “dice playing” (from
$
, “a cube, a die as
used in gaming”); hence, metaphorically, “trickery, sleight,” Eph. 4:14. The Eng. word is
connected with “sly” (“not with slight”).¶
For
SLIP
see
DRIFT
SLOTHFUL
1.
(
$
, 3576), “indolent, sluggish,” is rendered “slothful” in Heb. 6:12,
KJV
, See
DULL
, and synonymous words there, and
SLUGGISH
.
2.
(
A
$
, 3636), “shrinking, irksome,” is translated “slothful” in Matt.
25:26, and Rom. 12:11, where “in diligence not slothful,”
RV
, might be rendered “not
flagging in zeal.” See
GRIEVOUS
,
Note
(2).
SLOW
$
(
$ "
, 1021) is used twice in Jas. 1:19, in an exhortation to “be slow to
speak” and “slow to wrath”; in Luke 24:25, metaphorically of the understanding.¶
Note:
For “slow” (
) in Titus 1:12, see
IDLE
.
For
SLOWLY (sailed)
see
SAIL
, No. 10
SLUGGISH