| Lexical Summary stauroō: to fence with stakes, to crucifyOriginal Word: σταυρόω Transliteration: stauroō Phonetic Spelling: (stow-ro'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to fence with stakes, to crucify Meaning: to fence with stakes, to crucify Strong's Concordancecrucify. From stauros; to impale on the cross; figuratively, to extinguish (subdue) passion or selfishness -- crucify. see GREEK stauros Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 4717: σταυρόω 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: Matthew 20:19; Matthew 23:34; Matthew 26:2; Matthew 27:22,( 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)), Galatians 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, Galatians 6:14. (Compare: ἀνασταυρόω, σὑν᾿σταυρόω.) | 



