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Crucifixion
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Crucifixion, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3... / CC BY SA 3.0 • #Crucifixion • #Roman_law • #Capital_punishment • #Execution_methods • #Torture • #Human_positions • #Public_executions • #Crosses_by_function • Crucifixion • Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang for several days until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. • The crucifixion of Jesus is a central narrative in Christianity, and the cross (sometimes depicting Jesus nailed onto it) is the main religious symbol for many Christian churches. • Ancient Greek has two verbs for crucify: ana-stauro (ἀνασταυρόω), from stauros , stake , and apo-tumpanizo (ἀποτυμπανίζω) crucify on a plank , together with anaskolopizo (ἀνασκολοπίζω impale ). In earlier pre-Roman Greek texts anastauro usually means impale . • New Testament Greek uses four verbs, three of them based upon stauros (σταυρός), usually translated cross . The most common term is stauroo (σταυρόω), to crucify , occurring 43 times; sustauroo (συσταυρόω), to crucify with or alongside occurs five times, while anastauroo (ἀνασταυρόω), to crucify again occurs only once at the Epistle to the Hebrews 6:6. prospegnumi (προσπήγνυμι), to fix or fasten to, impale, crucify occurs only once at the Acts of the Apostles 2:23. • The English term cross derives from the Latin word crux . The Latin term crux classically referred to a tree or any construction of wood used to hang criminals as a form of execution. The term later came to refer specifically to a cross. • The English term crucifix derives from the Latin crucifixus or cruci fixus , past participle passive of crucifigere or cruci figere , meaning to crucify or to fasten to a cross . • Crucifixion was most often performed to dissuade its witnesses from perpetrating similar (usually particularly heinous) crimes. Victims were sometimes left on display after death as a warning to a...
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