βία
bía · G970 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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force, violence
A strong, destructive force
ExamplesActs 5:26 Then the captain went along with the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned).
Acts 21:35 When Paul got to the stairs, it came about that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;
Acts 27:41 But they struck a reef where two seas met and ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck firmly and remained immovable, while the stern started to break up due to the force of the waves.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- διάthrough 2
- ὑπόby, under 2
- μετάwith, after 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 1 word
- פֶּרֶךְ perek · H6531 · harshness, harsh rigor
- פֶּרֶךְ (perek, H6531) denotes oppressive harshness or severity in labor contexts (Exodus 1:13-14), while βία (bía, G970) denotes physical force or violence more broadly; the overlap is register-specific to contexts of coercive compulsion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Force, violence20.1
- Used of physical force applied against someone, as of bringing the apostles back without violence for fear of the people in Acts 5:26 and the violence of the mob that requires Paul to be carried by soldiers in Acts 21:35.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βίας, ἡ; 1. strength, whether of body or of mind: Homer and subsequent writers. 2.…
1. strength, whether of body or of mind: Homer and subsequent writers.
2. strength in violent action, force: μετά βίας by the use of force, with violence, Acts 5:26; Acts 24:7 (Rec.); shock τῶν κυμάτων, Acts 27:41 (R G, but Tr text brackets; others omit τῶν κυμάτων); διά τήν βίαν τοῦ ὄχλου, the crowd pressing on so violently, Acts 21:35. (Synonym: see δύναμις, at the end.)
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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