Word

ἀπειλή

apeilḗ · G547 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to threaten, threat

To declare that one will cause harm to someone, particularly if certain conditions are not met

Examples
Acts 4:29 “And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant it to Your bond-servants to speak Your word with all confidence,
Acts 9:1 Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Ephesians 6:9 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.

How it’s used In 3 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

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐμπνέωto threaten strongly 1
ἀνίημιto loosen 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπίon 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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word

גְּעָרָה gᵉʻârâh · H1606 · rebuke, scolding: Hebrew גְּעָרָה denotes a sharp verbal rebuke or reproof, overlapping with Greek ἀπειλή (menace/threat) in contexts where authoritative rebuke carries an implicit or explicit threatening force, as in prophetic denunciations or divine warnings where rebuke and threat merge into a single speech act.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To threaten, threat33.291: In Acts 4:29, the believers pray, “now, Lord, look at their threats (apeilàs), and grant it to Your bond-servants to speak Your word with all confidence,” naming the intimidating words the Sanhedrin had directed at Peter and John.

Word family 3 words

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

ἀπειλέω apeiléō · G546 · to threaten, threat · 2×ἀπειλήapeilḗ · G547προσαπειλέω prosapeiléō · G4324 · to threaten further · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀπειλῆς, ἡ, a threatening, threat: Acts 4:17 R G (cf. ἀπειλέω), ; ; Eph 6:9. (From Homer…

ἀπειλῆς, ἡ, a threatening, threat: Acts 4:17 R G (cf. ἀπειλέω), ; ; Eph 6:9. (From Homer down.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Threaten3 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