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to cut off with an ax, esp. to behead Original Word: πελεκίζωTransliteration: pelekizó Phonetic Spelling: (pel-ek-id'-zo) Short Definition: behead
from pelekus (a battle-ax) Definition to cut off with an ax, esp. to behead NASB Word Usage beheaded (1). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
From a derivative of plesso (meaning an axe); to chop off (the head), i.e. Truncate -- behead. see GREEK plesso πεπελεκισμένων (pepelekismenōn) − 1 Occurrence
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