sphazo describes the killing of a victim, whether narrated as an act of slaughter or as the condition of those killed.

The occurrences consistently portray the killing of a victim: active forms describe Cain’s act against his brother and people killing one another, while passive forms identify the Lamb, a wounded head, and others as having been killed.

1. Killing or being killed · dominant

   The active forms describe Cain’s completed action against his brother in 1 John 3:12 and the future prospect that people may kill one another in Revelation 6:4; in those clauses the APB renders the action “slaughtered” and “slaughter one another.” Perfect passive participles describe those already killed: the Lamb in Revelation 5:6 and Revelation 5:12, those under the altar in Revelation 6:9, and all those killed on the earth in Revelation 18:24.

   1 John 3:12Revelation 6:4Revelation 5:6Revelation 5:12Revelation 6:9Revelation 18:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “slaughtered” or “slaughter” in 1 John 3:12, Revelation 6:4, Revelation 6:9, Revelation 13:3, Revelation 13:8, and Revelation 18:24, while Revelation 5:6, Revelation 5:9, and Revelation 5:12 use “slain.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses' portrayal of killing without establishing separate lexical senses.