κολοβόω, κολοβω: 1 aorist ἐκολοβωσα; passive, 1 aorist ἐκολοβωθην; 1 future κολοβωθήσομαι; (from κολοβός lopped, mutilated); to cut off (τάς χεῖρας, 2Sa_4:12; τούς πόδας, Aristotle, h. a. 1, 1 (p. 487, 24); τήν ῤῖνα, Diodorus 1, 78); to mutilate (Polybius 1, 80, 13); hence in the N. T. of time (Vulg.brevio) to shorten, abridge, curtail: Mat_24:22; Mar_13:20.

κολοβόω kolo boō 4x in NT of time, to cut short, shorten, Mat_24:22 ; Mar_13:20

κολοβόω , -ῶ ( < κολοβός , docked ), [in LXX : 2Sa_4:12 ( H7112 pi .) * ;] to cut off, amputate ( LXX ), hence, to curtail, shorten : Mat_24:22 , Mar_13:20 .†

κολοβόω [page 353] κολοβόω , properly = amputate (Swete on Mar_13:20 : cf. 2Ki_4:12 ). For a form κολοβίζω (not in LS 8 ) of this late verb, cf. IMA iii. 323 (Thera i/B.C. or i/A.D.) τὰ πλείωι κεκολοβισμέ [νων ] καὶ ἀφιρημένων . The subst. κολόβιον , an under-vest with shortened sleeves, occurs in an inventory of property, P Tebt II. 406 .17 ( c. A.D. 266) κολόβιον λινοῦν δ [ί ]σημον καινόν , a new linen shirt with two stripes (Edd.) al ., and the adj. κολοβός , maimed, mutilated, in the description of an ass μυόχρουν κολοβόν in P Gen I. 23 .5 (A.D. 70) al. : cf. P Petr III. 19 ( g ) .2 (Ptol.), P Oxy I. 43 verso v. 9 (iii/A.D.). The epithet ὁ κολοβοδάκτυλος , the stump-fingered, applied to Mark in iii/A.D. (Hippolytus Philos. vii. 30), has been traced to a desire on the part of the philosophers to ridicule the shortness of his Gospel, but is more probably due to some natural defect of the evangelist himself : see a curious note by Nestle, ZNTW iv. p. 347.

κολοβόω κολοβόω, φυτ. -ώσω "to dock, curtail, shorten", NTest.

κολοβόω, -ῶ (κολοβός, docked), [in LXX: 2Ki.4:12 (קָצַץ pi.) * ;] to cut off, amputate (LXX), hence, to curtail, shorten: Mat.24:22, Mrk.13:20.† (AS)