To strike
παίωStrong’s G3817paiō
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Paiō is the Greek word usually translated “having struck”, “struck” and “it may strike”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?”
Meaning
Usually translated “having struck”, “struck” and “it may strike”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- having struck 2
- struck 1
- he struck 1
- it may strike 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
- Luke 1
- John 1
- Revelation 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 14:47And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
- Luke 22:64And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
- John 18:10Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
- Revelation 9:5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Greek dictionary
παίω paiō · to strike
παίω [in LXX chiefly for נָכָה hi. ;] to strike, smite: with the hand or fist, Mat.26:68, Luk.22:64; with a sword, Mrk.14:47, Jhn.18:10; of a reptile, to sting: Rev.9:5.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strike” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRIKE, verb transitive
preterit tense struck; participle passive struck and stricken; but struck is in the most common use. Strook is wholly obsolete. [G., to pass, move or ramble, to depart, to touch, to stroke, to glide or glance over, to lower or strike as sails, to curry; Latin, to sweep together, to spread, as a plaster, to play on a violin, to card, as wool, to strike or whip, as with a rod; a stroke, stripe or lash.]
- To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or an instrument; to give a blow to, either with the open hand, the fist, a stick, club or whip, or with a pointed instrument, or with a ball or an arrow discharged.
- To dash; to throw with a quick motion.“They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts” Exodus 12:7
- To stamp; to impress; to coin; as, to strike coin at the mint; to strike dollars or sovereigns; also, to print; as, to strike five hundred copies of a book.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; as, a tree strikes its root deep.
All definitions and other forms of “strike”
- To punish; to afflict; as smite is also used.“To punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity” Proverbs 17:26
- To cause to sound; to notify by sound; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
- To run upon; to be stranded.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To lower a flag or colors in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of the ship to an enemy.
- To break forth; as, to strike into reputation. [Not in use.]
STRIKE, noun
- An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt and the like, for scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- A bushel; four pecks. [Local.]
- A measure of four bushels or half a quarter. [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.