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To strike

προσκόπτωStrong’s G4350

proskoptō

Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament

In short

Proskoptō is the Greek word usually translated “may strike”, “stumbles” and “beat”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.

“And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
Matthew 4:6 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “may strike”, “stumbles” and “beat”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • you may strike 2
  • he stumbles 2
  • beat 1
  • they stumbled 1
  • stumbles 1
  • stumble at 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 2
  • John 2
  • Romans 2
  • Luke 1
  • 1 Peter 1

5 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 8 verses, by book
Matthew 2
4:67:27
Luke 1
4:11
John 2
11:911:10
Romans 2
9:3214:21
1 Peter 1
2:8
Greek dictionary

προσκόπτω proskoptō · to strike

προσ-κόπτω [in LXX for נָגַף, כָּשַׁל ni., etc. ;] 1. trans., to strike (e.g. hand or foot) against: with accusative before πρός, figuratively, Mat.4:6, Luk.4:11, (LXX) 2. Intrans., to stumble: absol. (Tob.11:9, Pro.3:23), Jhn.11:9-10; of wind, to rush against, beat upon: with dative, Mat.7:27. Metaphorical, in late writers, (a) to offend (Polyb.); (b) to take offence at, stumble at: before ἐν, Rom.14:21; with dative, τ. λόγῳ, 1Pe.2:8; τ. λίθῳ τ. προσκόμματος, Rom.9:32.† (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.