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ἁφή

haphḗ · G860 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. ligament, that which binds together

    Part of the joints of the body which binds the different parts together

    Examples

    Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

    Colossians 2:19 and not holding firmly to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

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

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Ligament, that which binds together8.60
Used anatomically of the connective tissue holding the body together, as of the joints and ligaments through which the body grows in Ephesians 4:16 and Colossians 2:19.
Word family 5 words

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

ἅπτω háptō · G681 · to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze · 5×ἅπτομαι háptomai · G680 · to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze · 35×ἀνάπτω anáptō · G381 · to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze · 2×ἁφήhaphḗ · G860καθάπτω katháptō · G2510 · to seize, to fasten onto · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἁφῆς, ἡ (ἅπτω to fasten together, to fit) (Vu]g.junctura (andnexus)), bond, connection…
ἁφῆς, ἡ (ἅπτω to fasten together, to fit) (Vu]g.junctura (andnexus)), bond, connection (A. V. joint (see especially Lightfoot on Col. as below)): Eph 4:16; Col 2:19. (Plutarch, Anton c. 27.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Parts of the Body2 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

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