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prizō πρίζω prizō

To SAW — a New Testament hapax at Hebrews 11:37, 'they were sawn in two'. It is almost certainly an allusion to the tradition that Isaiah was executed that way by Manasseh, which is recorded in the Martyrdom of Isaiah and NOT in the Hebrew Bible — so the verse quietly assumes a story its readers knew from outside the canon. → first discussed at Hebrews 11:37