Lexical Definition

‎κολάζω‎ kolázō (kol-ad'-zo) to punish ^G:V
from (dwarf)

punish.

• properly, to curtail, i.e. (figuratively) to chastise (or reserve for infliction)

Abbott-Smith

κολάζω (< κόλος, docked), [in LXX: Da 6:12* (13*) (no Heb.), I Es 8:24, Wi 3:4 (and freq.), I Mac 7:7, al.;]
1. to curtail, dock, prune.
2. to check, restrain.
3. to chastise, correct, punish: pass., II Pe 2:9; mid., cause to be punished (III Mac 7:3): Ac 4:21.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

κολάζω,

future κολάσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκόλασα [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, future κολάσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; twice contraction in [Refs 5th c.BC+], 2nd pers. singular κολᾷ [Refs], participle κολωμένους [Refs]: aorist ἐκολασάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future -ασθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκολάσθην [Refs]: perfect κεκόλασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—check, chastise, τὰς ἐπιθυμίας [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be corrected, τὸ ἐν μέλιτι χολῶδες -άζεται [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect participle passive, chastened, εὐπειθὲς καὶ κεκολ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ῥήτωρ κεκ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also of an athlete, ἀπέριττος τὰ μυώδη καὶ μὴ κεκ. [Refs]

__2 chastise, punish, τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ σέμν᾽ ἔπη κόλαζ᾽ ἐκείνους use your proud words in reproving them, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πληγαῖς, τιμωρίαις, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, get a person punished, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be punished, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of divine retribution, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; suffer injury, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 of a drastic method of checking the growth of the almond-tree, [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, [Refs]
__4 passive with genitive, to be badly in need of, [Refs 1st c.AD+]