δάκνω
dáknō · G1143 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to harm
(A figurative extension of meaning of δάκνω ‘to bite,’ not occurring in the NT) To cause personal harm to someone
ExamplesGalatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀλλήλωνeach other, one another 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- נָשַׁךְ nâshak · H5391 · to bite, to bite > to eat
- Hebrew נָשַׁךְ and Greek δάκνω share the core literal sense “to bite,” each extending figuratively in its own direction — נָשַׁךְ to lending at interest (biting as exploitation), δάκνω to hostile aggression or injury. The Septuagint regularly renders נָשַׁךְ with δάκνω across both literal and figurative usage, making them direct cross-linguistic equivalents.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To harm20.26
- Used figuratively of mutual destructive conflict, as of the warning to take care that biting and devouring one another does not consume the community in Galatians 5:15.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon to bite; a. properly, with the teeth. b. metaphorically, to wound the soul, cut,…
a. properly, with the teeth.
b. metaphorically, to wound the soul, cut, lacerate, rend with reproaches: Gal 5:15. So even in Homer, Iliad 5, 493 μῦθος δακε φρενας, Menander quoted in Athen. 12, 77, p. 552 e., and times without number in other authors.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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