Word

ἐμπτύω

emptýō · G1716 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

To spit on or at something or someone (to spit (on))

Examples
Matthew 26:67 Then they spit in His face and beat Him with their fists; and others slapped Him,
Matthew 27:30 And they spit on Him, and took the reed and beat Him on the head.
Mark 10:34 “And they will mock Him and spit on Him, and flog Him and kill Him; and three days later He will rise from the dead.”

How it’s used In 5 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

6 occurrences in 4 groups

Not stated: they 3
Not stated: he, she or it 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 3

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰςto+ πρόσωπονface 1
εἰςto+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

τότεthen 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἄρχωto be first 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

To spit (on)23.43: This verb means to spit on someone as an act of contempt, used repeatedly of the mockery and abuse Jesus endured before His crucifixion — "Then they spit in His face and beat Him with their fists" (Matthew 26:67), "And they spit on Him, and took the reed and beat Him on the head" (Matthew 27:30), and in Jesus' own prediction of His suffering, "they will mock Him and spit on Him, and flog Him and kill Him" (Mark 10:34).

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πτύω ptýō · G4429 · to spit · 3×ἐμπτύωemptýō · G1716πτύον ptýon · G4425 · a winnowing shovel · 2×ἐκπτύω ekptýō · G1609 · to reject, to have disdain for · 1×πτύρω ptýrō · G4426 · to be afraid, to be scared, to be intimidated · 1×πτύσμα ptýsma · G4427 · spit, saliva · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (see ἐν, III. 3); imperfect ἐνέπτυον; future ἐμπτύσω; 1 aorist ἐνέπτυσα; future passive…

(see ἐν, III. 3); imperfect ἐνέπτυον; future ἐμπτύσω; 1 aorist ἐνέπτυσα; future passive ἐμπτυσθήσομαι; (from Herodotus down); to spit upon: τίνι, Mk 10:34; Mk 14:65; Mk 15:19; εἰς τό πρόσωπον τίνος, Mt 26:67 (Num 12:14; Plutarch, ii., p. 189 a. (i. e. reg. et imper. apotheg. Phocylides, 17); κατά τό πρόσωπον τίνι, Deut 25:9); εἰς τινα, Mt 27:30; passive to be spit upon: Lk 18:32. Musonius Rufus quoted in Stab. floril. 19, 16. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn. 10:17; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 66).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Processes Involving the Mouth, Other Than Eating and Drinking6 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0