ἁρπαγμός
harpagmós · G725 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to rob, to carry off, to plunder, to forcefully seize
To forcefully take something away from someone else, often with the implication of a sudden attack
ExamplesPhilippians 2:6 who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
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something to hold by force, something to be forcibly retained
That which is to be held on to forcibly
ExamplesPhilippians 2:6 who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
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
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡγέομαιto consider, to lead 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 3 words
- טֶרֶף ṭereph · H2964 · prey, victim, food
- Hebrew טֶרֶף denotes the concrete object of plunder or prey (what is seized), corresponding to Greek ἁρπαγμός as the act or thing seized through forceful taking.
- גָּזֵל gâzêl · H1498 · seizing, robbery
- Hebrew term for violent robbery or plunder as concrete object taken; Greek term specifically denotes seized plunder in concrete sense, both referring to the tangible goods obtained through forcible seizure rather than the abstract act.
- גְּזֵלָה gᵉzêlâh · H1500 · things obtained through robbery
- Hebrew term for violently seized property or spoil, semantically equivalent to the Greek concrete sense of plunder/robbery; both denote the tangible object obtained through forcible taking rather than the abstract act.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To rob, to carry off, to plunder, to forcefully seize57.235
- In Philippians 2:6, Paul writes of Christ, “who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped (harpagmón),” describing a status He already possessed rather than something to be seized from another.
- Something to hold by force, something to be forcibly retained57.236
- In the same verse, Philippians 2:6, Christ “did not consider equality with God something to be grasped (harpagmón)” but instead emptied Himself, describing a status He did not cling to or forcibly retain for His own advantage.
Word family 28 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἁρπαγμου, ὁ (ἁρπάζω); 1. the act of seizing, robbery (so Plutarch, de book educ. c. 15…
1. the act of seizing, robbery (so Plutarch, de book educ. c. 15 (others 14, 37), vol. 2:12 a. the only instance of its use noted in secular authors).
2. a thing seized or to be seized, booty: ἁρπαγμόν ἡγεῖσθαι τί to deem anything a prlze — a thing to be seized upon or to be held fast, retained, Phm 2:6; on the meaning of this passage see μορφή; (ἡγεῖσθαι or ποιεῖσθαι τί ἅρπαγμα, Eusebius, h. e. 8, 12, 2; vit. Const. 2, 31; (commentaries in Luc. vi., cf. Mai, Nov. Biblical Patr. iv., p. 165); Heliodorus 7, 11 and 20; 8, 7; (Plutarch, de Alex. virt. 1, 8, p. 330d.);utomniumbonapraedamtuamduceres, Cicero, Verr. 2:5, 15, 39; (see Lightfoot on Phil., p. 133f (cf. p. 111); Wetstein at the passage; Cremer, 4te Aufl., p. 153f)).
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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