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To throw

βάλλωStrong’s G0906

ballō

Appears in 106 verses of the New Testament

In short

Ballō is the Greek word usually translated “cast”, “do cast” and “casting”. It appears in 106 verses of the New Testament.

“And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”
Matthew 3:10 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “cast”, “do cast” and “casting”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • cast 11
  • they cast 10
  • do cast 7
  • casting 6
  • to cast 5
  • to be cast 4
  • he cast 4
  • is thrown 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 29
  • Revelation 24
  • Luke 17
  • Mark 15
  • John 14
  • Acts 5

8 books in all.

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James 1
3:3
1 John 1
4:18
Greek dictionary

βάλλω ballō · to throw

βάλλω, [in LXX for נפל, שׂום, ידד, etc. ;] prop., of a weapon or missile; then generally, of things and persons, lit. and metaphorically, to throw, cast, put, place: with accusative, before εἰς, Mat.4:18, and frequently ἐπί, Mat.10:34; κάτω, Mat.4:6; ἔξω, Mat.5:13; ἀπό, Mat.5:29; ἐκ, Mrk.12:44; δρέπανον, Rev.14:19; μάχαιραν, Mat.10:34; κλῆρον, Mat.27:35; of fluids, to pour: Mat.9:17, Jhn.13:5; pass., to be laid, to lie ill: Mat.9:2; ἐβλήθη (timeless aor., M, Pr., 134), Jhn.15:6; intrans., to rush (Bl., §53, 1): Act.27:14. Metaphorical, β. εἰς τ. καρδίαν, Jhn.13:2 (cf. usage in π., without id …

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “throw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

THROW, verb transitive

preterit tense threw; participle passive thrown. [Gr. to run; Latin trochilus.]

  1. Properly, to hurl; to whirl; to fling or cast in a winding direction.
  2. To fling or cast in any manner; to propel; to send; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine.
  3. To wind; as, to throw silk.
  4. To turn; as, to throw balls in a lathe.
All definitions and other forms of “throw”
  1. To venture at dice.
  2. To cast; to divest or strip one's self of; to put off; as, a serpent throws his skin.
  3. To cast; to send.
  4. To put on; to spread carelessly.
  5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
  6. To cast; to drive by violence; as a vessel or sailors thrown upon a rock.
  7. To bestow without a compensation.
  8. To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
  9. To bring down from a high station; to depress.
  10. To put in; to deposit with others; also, to give up or relinquish.
  11. To reject; to discard; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
  12. To utter carelessly; to speak; as, to throw out insinuations or observations.
  13. To exert; to bring forth into act.
  14. To distance; to leave behind.
  15. To exclude; to reject.
  16. To resign angrily.
  17. To discharge from the stomach.

THROW, verb intransitive

To perform the act of throwing.

  1. To cast dice.

THROW, noun

The act of hurling or flinging; a cast; a driving or propelling from the hand or from an engine.

  1. A cast of dice; and the manner in which dice fall when cast; as a good throw None but a fool hazards all upon one throw
  2. The distance which a missile is or may be thrown; as a stone's throw
  3. A stroke; a blow.
  4. Effort; violent sally.
  5. The agony of travail. [See Throe.]
  6. A turner's lathe. [Local.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.