Strong's Lexicon tartaroó: to cast into Tartarus, to confine in hell Original Word: ταρταρόω HELPS Word-studies 5020 tartaróō – properly, send to Tartarus ("Tartaros"). The NT uses 5020 (tartaróō) for the netherworld – the place of punishment fit only for demons. Later, Tartaros came to represent eternal punishment for wicked people. "5020 (tartaróō) is a Greek name for the under-world, especially the abode of the damned – hence to cast into hell" (A-S); to send into the subterranean abyss reserved for demons and the dead. [In Greek mythology, Tartarus was a "place of punishment under the earth, to which, for example, the Titans were sent" (Souter).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom Tartaros (a Gr. name for the abode of the damned) Definition to cast into hell NASB Translation cast...into hell (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5020: ταρταρόωταρταρόω, ταρτάρῳ: 1 aorist participle ταρταρώσας; (τάρταρος, the name of a subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to the Gehenna of the Jews, see γηννα); to thrust down to Tartarus (sometimes in the Scholiasts) (cf. Winers Grammar, 25 (24) n.); to hold captive in Tartarus: τινα σειραῖς (which see) σοφοῦ, 2 Peter 2:4 (A. V. cast down to hell (making the dative depend on παρέδωκεν)). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance cast into hell. From Tartaros (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment -- cast down to hell. Forms and Transliterations ταρταρωσας ταρταρώσας tartarosas tartarōsas tartarṓsasLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |