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νύσσω

nýssō · G3572 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to prick, to pierce

    To pierce with a pointed instrument; normally not as serious a wound as is implied by ἐκκεντέω ‘to pierce,’

    Examples

    John 19:34 Yet one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To prick, to pierce19.15
Describing the crucifixion, John 19:34 states “Yet one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out,” where “pierced” renders this verb.
Word family 3 words

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

νύσσωnýssō · G3572κατάνυξις katányxis · G2659 · not being able to think, bewilderment · 1×κατανύσσω katanýssō · G2660 · to be greatly troubled, to be acutely distressed · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (νύττω): 1 aorist ἔνυξα; to strike (?), pierce; to pierce through, transfix; often in…
(νύττω): 1 aorist ἔνυξα; to strike (?), pierce; to pierce through, transfix; often in Homer of severe or even deadly wounds given one; as, τόν μέν ἔγχει νυξ'... στυγερός δ' ἄρα μίν σκότος ἑιλε, Iliad 5, 45. 47; φθάσας αὐτόν ἐκεῖνος νυττει κάτωθεν ὑπό τόν βουβωνα δόρατι καί παραχρῆμα διεργάζεται, Josephus, b. j. 3, 7, 35; so τήν πλευράν λόγχη, Jn 19:34, cf. Jn 20:25, Jn 20:27. On the further use of the word cf. Fritzsche, Romans, ii., p. 559. (Compare: κατανύσσω.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Pierce, Cut1 occurrence

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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