μάστιξ
mástix · G3148 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to whip, to beat with a whip, whipping, flogging
To beat severely with a whip
ExamplesActs 22:24 the commander ordered that he be brought into the barracks, saying that he was to be interrogated by flogging so that he would find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.
Hebrews 11:36 and others experienced mocking and flogging, and further, chains and imprisonment.
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to be diseased, to be sick, disease
A state of disease, often implying divine punishment
ExamplesMark 3:10 for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had diseases pushed in around Him in order to touch Him.
Mark 5:29 And immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
Mark 5:34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be cured of your disease.”
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom 5
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πεῖραattempt, trial 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
- שׁוֹט shôwṭ · H7752 · whip, scourge
- Hebrew שׁוֹט denotes the physical instrument of scourging/whipping and serves as the direct Septuagintal rendering underlying Greek μάστιξ in its literal sense (the whip itself), though μάστιξ extends metaphorically to disease/affliction in NT usage where שׁוֹט does not.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To whip, to beat with a whip, whipping, flogging19.9
- This sense denotes the punishment of flogging, here as a means of judicial interrogation. Acts 22:24 records that Paul was “to be interrogated by flogging so that he would find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.”
- To be diseased, to be sick, disease23.153
- This sense denotes physical affliction or disease, distinct from the punishment sense above. Mark 5:29 states that the woman “felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μαστιχος, ἡ, a whip, scourge (for שׁוט, 1 Kgs 12:11, 1 Kgs 12:14; Prov 26:3): Acts 22:21;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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