ῥαβδίζω
rhabdízō · G4463 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to beat with a stick or rod
To beat or strike repeatedly with a stick or rod
ExamplesActs 16:22 The crowd joined in an attack against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.
2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift at sea.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- στρατηγόςmagistrate 1
- Not stated: I 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τρίςthrice 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- δέρω dérō · G1194 · to strike, to beat, to whip
- δέρω is a broader term for beating or flogging that can overlap with ῥαβδίζω in contexts of physical punishment, though δέρω does not specify the instrument (rod) as ῥαβδίζω does.
- μαστιγόω mastigóō · G3146 · to whip, to beat with a whip, whipping
- μαστιγόω refers to flogging or scourging, typically with a whip, and represents a similar act of corporal punishment though with a different instrument than the rod specified by ῥαβδίζω.
- τύπτω týptō · G5180 · to hit, to strike, to beat
- τύπτω is a general verb for striking or beating that can include beating with a stick, making it a near synonym though less specific to rod-beating than ῥαβδίζω.
In the other Testament 1 word
- נָכָה nâkâh · H5221 · to hit, to beat, to strike
- The Hiphil stem of נכה, commonly used for striking with an instrument including rods and staves, is the direct Hebrew equivalent for contexts of beating with a rod.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To beat with a stick or rod19.8
- The verb describes a formal beating with rods, a Roman punishment. Paul recounts his sufferings: “Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked” (2 Corinthians 11:25).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist passive ἐρραβδίσθην, and (so L T Tr WH) ἐραβδίσθην (see Rho); (ῤάβδος); to beat…
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
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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