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Lexicon :: Strong's G3815 - paizō

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παίζω
Transliteration
paizō (Key)
Pronunciation
paheed'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:625,758

Strong’s Definitions

παίζω paízō, paheed'-zo; from G3816; to sport (as a boy):—play.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G3815 in the following manner: play (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G3815 in the following manner: play (1x).

  1. to play like a child

  2. to play, sport, jest

  3. to give way to hilarity, esp. by joking singing, dancing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παίζω paízō, paheed'-zo; from G3816; to sport (as a boy):—play.
STRONGS G3815:
παίζω; from Homer down; properly, to play like a child; then universally, to play, sport, jest; to give way to hilarity, especially by joking, singing, dancing; so in 1 Corinthians 10:7, after Exodus 32:6 where it stands for צִחֵק, as in Genesis 21:9; Genesis 26:8; Judges 16:25; also in the Sept. for שִׂחַק. (Compare: ἐμπαίζω.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
21:9; 26:8
Exodus
32:6
Judges
16:25
1 Corinthians
10:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3815 matches the Greek παίζω (paizō),
which occurs 30 times in 30 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - And Sarrha having seen the son of Agar the Egyptian who was born to Abraam, sporting with Isaac her son,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - And he remained there a long time, and Abimelech the king of Gerara leaned to look through the window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebecca his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:6 - And having risen early on the morrow, he [fn]offered whole burnt-offerings, and offered a peace-offering; and [fn] the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19 - And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him powerfully, and he went down to Ascalon, and destroyed of [fn]the inhabitants thirty men, and took their garments, and gave the changes of raiment to them that told the riddle; and Sampson was very angry, and went up to the house of his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Sampson out of the prison-house, and let him play before us: and they called Sampson out of the prison-house, and he played before them; and they smote him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:4 - And all Israel heard say, Saul has smitten Nasib the Philistine; now Israel had been put to shame before the Philistines; and the children of Israel went up after Saul in Galgala.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - And David said, As the Lord lives, if the Lord smite him not, or his day come and he die, or he go down to battle and be added to his fathers, do not so.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - And Abenner said to Joab, Let now the young men arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5 - And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:7 - And the Lord was very angry with Oza; and God smote him there: [fn]and he died there by the ark of the Lord before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - And David said to Melchol, I will dance before the Lord. Blessed be the Lord who chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to make me head over his people, even over Israel: therefore I will play, and dance before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - And moreover thy handmaid had two sons, and they fought [fn]together in the field, and there was no one to part them; and the one smote the other his brother, and slew him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And behold the whole family rose up against thine handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that smote his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to [fn]leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:10 - And Amessai observed not the dagger that was in the hand of Joab: and Joab smote him with it on the loins, and his [fn]bowels were shed out upon the ground, and he did not repeat the blow, and he died: and Joab and Abessai his brother pursued after Sabee the son of Bochori.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:16 - And the people heard in the [fn]army, saying, Zambri has conspired and smitten the king: and the people [fn]of Israel made Ambri the captain of the host king in that day in the camp over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - And king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezrael of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, in his war with Azael king of Syria. And Ju said, If your heart is with me, let there not go forth out of the city [fn]one fugitive to go and report to Jezrael.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Reblatha in the land of Æmath. So Juda was carried away from his land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8 - And David and all Israel were playing before the Lord with all their might, and that together with singers, and with harps, and with lutes, with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29 - And the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived, and came to the city of David; and Melchol the daughter of Saul looked down through the window, and saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:5 - (LXX 40:29) And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:19 - so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:16 - Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 - Hast thou utterly rejected Juda? and has thy soul departed from Sion? wherefore hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:17 - I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - (LXX 37:14) All thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not ask about thee at all, for I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, even severe correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:19 - (LXX 37:19) And there shall go forth from them singers, even the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:4 - (LXX 38:4) For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:7 - And I saw him coming up close to the ram, and he was furiously enraged against him, and he smote the ram, and broke both his horns: and there was no strength in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him on the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:5 - And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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