βιάζω
biázō · G971 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to be attacked with violence, to suffer violent attacks
To experience a violent attack
ExamplesMatthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been treated violently, and violent men take it by force.
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to use violence
To employ violence in doing harm to someone or something
ExamplesMatthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been treated violently, and violent men take it by force.
Luke 16:16 The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John came; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- πᾶςall, every, each 1
- βασιλείαkingdom, reign 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἁρπάζω harpázō · G726 · to seize, to snatch away, to take away
- Greek verb expressing forceful seizure or taking by force, overlaps with the passive sense of βιάζω ('to be seized') and violent acquisition
- ἀναγκάζω anankázō · G315 · to compel, to force
- Greek verb denoting compulsion or forcing someone to act, shares the sense of applying force or constraint to achieve an end
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָמַס châmaç · H2554 · to harm, to wrong, to mistreat
- Hebrew verb expressing forceful or violent action, standard translation equivalent for contexts involving violence or forceful compulsion
- אָנַס ʼânaç · H597 · to force, to compel, to restrain
- Hebrew verb denoting compulsion or forcing, used in contexts of coercion
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To use violence20.10
- Used actively of forcing one's way in, as of everyone forcing their way into the kingdom of God since the gospel has been proclaimed in Luke 16:16.
- To be attacked with violence, to suffer violent attacks20.9
- Used passively of something being subjected to forceful treatment, as of the kingdom of heaven suffering violence since the days of John the Baptist in Matthew 11:12.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (βία); to use force, to apply force; τινα, to force, inflict violence on, one; the…
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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