Crucifixion
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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...