Quick Definition
I dash to the ground
Strong's Definition
to raze
Derivation: from G1475 (ἔδαφος);
KJV Usage: lay even with the ground
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐδαφιζο: Attic future ἐδαφιω (Buttmann, 37 (32); Winers Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); (see ἔδαφος); to throw to the ground both of cities, buildings, to raze, level with the earth, and of men; in both applications in Luk_19:44 (by zeugma (?) cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 e.). (Psa_136:9 (); Isa_3:26; Eze_31:12; Hos_14:1 (Hos_13:16); Amo_9:14 (Ald.); rare in secular writings, as (Aristotle, probl. 23, 29); Polybius 6, 33, 6.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐδαφίζω edaphizō 1x
pr. to form a level and firm surface; to level with the ground, overthrow, raze, destroy, Luk_19:44
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐδαφίζω
( < ἔδαφος ),
[in LXX chiefly for H7376 pu .;]
1. to beat level like a threshing floor (Theophr.).
2. to dash to the ground ( Field, Notes , 74): Luk_19:44 ( cf. Psa_137:9 , Hos_14:1 ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐδαφίζω [page 180]
In support of the RV rendering in Luk_19:44 and shall dash thee to the ground, see Field Notes , p. 74. We have not come across any example of the verb in the papyri or the inscrr. though the subst (see s.v. ) is common.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐδαφίζω ἐδα^φίζω, "to dash to the ground", NTest. [Etym: from ἔδα^φος]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐδαφίζω (ἔδαφος)
[in LXX chiefly for רטשׁ pu. ;]
__1. to beat level like a threshing floor (Theophr.).
__2. to dash to the ground (Field, Notes, 74): Luk.19:44 (cf. Psa.136(137):9, Hos.14:1).
† (AS)