ῥάπισμα
rhápisma · G4475 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to slap, to hit, to whip, to beat
To hit or strike with the open hand, the fist, or an instrument (for example, club, rod, or whip)
ExamplesMark 14:65 And some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists and say to Him, “Prophesy!” Then the officers took custody of Him and slapped Him in the face.
John 18:22 But when He said this, one of the officers, who was standing nearby, struck Jesus, saying, “Is that the way You answer the high priest?”
John 19:3 and they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapped Him in the face again and again.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 2
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 2 words
- πληγή plēgḗ · G4127 · to hit, to strike, to beat
- Greek noun for a blow or strike; broader term that includes slaps but also other forms of striking; can substitute in contexts describing physical blows
- κολαφίζω kolaphízō · G2852 · to strike with the fist, to beat with the fist, to cause harm to
- Greek noun for a blow with the fist; closely related term for striking the face or body, distinguished from ῥάπισμα (slap with open hand) by the use of a closed fist rather than an open palm
In the other Testament 1 word
- מַכָּה makkâh · H4347 · stroke, lash, stripe
- Hebrew noun denoting a blow or strike, the standard translation equivalent for physical blows including slaps in the LXX and translation contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To slap, to hit, to whip, to beat19.4
- The noun names the blow itself. John recounts that when Jesus was on trial, “one of the officers, who was standing nearby, struck Jesus, saying, ‘Is that the way You answer the high priest?’” (John 18:22).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ῥαπισματος, τό (ῤαπίζω, which see); 1. a blow with a rod or a staff or a scourge…
1. a blow with a rod or a staff or a scourge (Antiphanes in Athen. 14, p. 623 b.; Anthol., Lucian).
2. a blow with the flat of the hand, a slap in the face, box on the car: βάλλειν τινα ῤαπίσμασιν (see βάλλω, 1), Mk 14:65; διδόναι τίνι ῤάπισμα, Jn 18:22; ῤαπίσματα, Jn 19:3 (but in all three examples R. V. marginal reading recognizes sense 1 (see references under the word ῤαπίζω)).
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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