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To crush

λικμάωStrong’s G3039

likmaō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Likmaō is the Greek word usually translated “it will grind to powder” and “it will grind into powder”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”
Matthew 21:44 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “it will grind to powder” and “it will grind into powder”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • it will grind to powder 1
  • it will grind into powder 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 1
  • Luke 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

λικμάω likmaō · to crush

λικμάω, -ῶ (λικμός = λίκνον, a winnowing-fan), [in LXX chiefly for זָרָה ni., pi., Rut.3:2 3Ki.14:15, Isa.17:13, Jer.31:10, Dan.2:44, al. ;] 1. in cl., to winnow (so Ru, l.with). 2. In LXX (ll with, exc. Ru), to scatter (as chaff or dust): Luk.20:18 (RV, scatter as dust, Deiss., BS, 225 f., quotes ex. in π. which suggests the meaning ruin, destroy; cf. Vg. comminuet, AV, grind to powder; cf. also Kennedy, Sources, 126), Mat.21:44 [WH], R, txt.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “crush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CRUSH, verb transitive

  1. To press and bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape; to bruise by pressure.
  2. To press with violence; to force together into a mass.
  3. To overwhelm by pressure; to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising; as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.“Who are crushed before the moth” Job 4:19
  4. To overwhelm by power; to subdue; to conquer beyond resistance; as, to crush ones enemies; to crush a rebellion.
All definitions and other forms of “crush”
  1. To oppress grievously.“Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always” Deuteronomy 28:33
  2. To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding; to comminute.

CRUSH, verb intransitive

To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.

    CRUSH, noun

    A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies; or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass; as the crush of a large tree, or of a building.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.