Quick Definition
κολοβόω v. I cut short, shorten
Strong's Definition
from a derivative of the base of 2849; to dock, i.e. (figuratively) abridge
KJV Usage: shorten
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb
59.71 · Quantity · Increase, Decrease
to shorten, to decrease, to reduce in number to cause something to be reduced in number or extent There may be difficulties involved in a strictly literal rendering of ‘those days will be shortened,’ for it might appear that each day would become shorter rather than that the number of days would be decreased. Therefore, one must render this expression in MAT 24:22 in a number of languages as ‘those days will be fewer.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κολοβόω, -ῶ: 1 aor. ἐκολόβωσα; Pass., 1 aor. ἐκολοβώθην; 1 fut. κολοβωθήσομαι ; (fr. κολοβός lopped, mutilated); to cut off (ras χεῖρας, 2S. iv. 12; τοὺς πόδας, Aristot. h. a. 1, 1 [p. 487, 24]; τὴν ῥῖνα, Diod. 1, 78); to mutilate (Polyb. 1, 80,13); hence in the N. T. of time, (Vulg. brevio) to shorten, abridge, curtail: Mt. xxiv. 22: Mk. xiii. 20.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κολοβόω koloboō 4x
in NT of time, to cut short, shorten, Mt. 24:22; Mk. 13:20*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κολοβόω, -ῶ
(< κολοβός, docked), [in LXX: II Ki 4:12 (קצץ pi.)*;]
to cut off, amputate (LXX), hence, to curtail, shorten: Mt 24:22, Mk 13:20.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κολοβόω, properly = ‘‘amputate” (Swete on Mk 1329: cf. 2 Kings 42). Fora form κολοβίζω (not in LS) of this late verb, cf. IMA iii. 323 (Thera i/B.c. or i/A.D.) τὰ πλείωι κεκολοβισμέ[νων] kal ἀφιρημένων. The subst. κολόβιον, an under-vest with shortened sleeves, occurs in an inventory of property, P Tebt II. 406" (c. A.D. 266) κολόβιον λινοῦν δ[ίσημον καινόν, ‘‘a new linen shirt with two stripes” (Edd.) αἰ, and the adj. κολοβός, ‘‘ maimed,” ‘‘ mutilated,” in the description of an ass—pudxpovv KodoBdy—in P Gen I. 238 (a.p. 70) αἰ. : cf. P Petr III. 19 (2)? (Ptol.), P Oxy I. 43 verso¥- 9 (ii/A-D.). The epithet ὁ κολοβοδάκτυλος, ‘the stumpfingered,” applied to Mark in iii/A.p. (Hippolytus ῥάζως. vii. 30), has been traced to a desire on the part of the philosophers to ridicule the shortness of his Gospel, but is Part IV.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κολοβόω (koloboō) — to shorten. κολοβ-όω, dock, curtail, mutilate, [LXX+4th c.BC+]:—passive, to be mutilated, imperfect, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. of Time, curtail, shorten, τὰς ἡμέρας [NT]