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To strike

πλήσσωStrong’s G4141

plēssō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Plēssō is the Greek word usually translated “was struck”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.”
Revelation 8:12 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “was struck”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • was struck 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Revelation 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    πλήσσω plēssō · to strike

    πλήσσω [in LXX chiefly for נָכָה hi., ho. ;] to strike, smite: pass., Rev.8:12 (cf. ἐπι, πλήσσω).† (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.]

    1. 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.
    2. 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
    3. 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.
    4. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; as, a tree strikes its root deep.
    All definitions and other forms of “strike”
    1. 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
    2. To cause to sound; to notify by sound; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
    3. To run upon; to be stranded.
    4. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
    5. To lower a flag or colors in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of the ship to an enemy.
    6. To break forth; as, to strike into reputation. [Not in use.]

    STRIKE, noun

    1. 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.
    2. A bushel; four pecks. [Local.]
    3. 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.