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To hurt

βλάπτωStrong’s G0984

blaptō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Blaptō is the Greek word usually translated “it will hurt” and “having hurt”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Mark 16:18 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “it will hurt” and “having hurt”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • it will hurt 1
  • having hurt 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Mark 1
  • Luke 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

βλάπτω blaptō · to hurt

βλάπτω, [in LXX: Pro.25:20, Tob.12:2, Wis.10:8 18:2, 2Ma.12:22, 4Ma.9:7 * ;] to hurt, injure: with accusative, Mrk.16:[18], Luk.4:35.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

HURT, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive hurt

  1. To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. Psalms 105:18
  2. To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body, as by incision or fracture.
  3. To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss.
  4. To injure by diminution; to impair.
All definitions and other forms of “hurt”
  1. To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength, purity or beauty of.
  2. To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.
  3. To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.

HURT, noun

A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.

  1. Harm; mischief; injury.“I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt” Genesis 4:23
  2. Injury; loss.“Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?” Ezra 4:22

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.