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Lexicon :: Strong's G3960 - patassō

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πατάσσω
Transliteration
patassō (Key)
Pronunciation
pat-as'-so
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably prolongation from παίω (G3817)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:939,804

Strong’s Definitions

πατάσσω patássō, pat-as'-so; probably prolongation from G3817; to knock (gently or with a weapon or fatally):—smite, strike. Compare G5180.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G3960 in the following manner: smite (9x), strike (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G3960 in the following manner: smite (9x), strike (1x).

  1. to strike gently: as a part or a member of the body

  2. to stroke, smite: with the sword, to afflict, to visit with evils, etc. as with a deadly disease

  3. to smite down, cut down, to kill, slay

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πατάσσω patássō, pat-as'-so; probably prolongation from G3817; to knock (gently or with a weapon or fatally):—smite, strike. Compare G5180.
STRONGS G3960:
πατάσσω: future πατάξω; 1 aorist ἐπάταξα; the Sept. times without number for הִכָּה (Hiphil of נָכָה, unused in Kal), also for נָגַף, etc.; (in Homer intransitive, to beat, of the heart; from Aristophanes, Sophocles, Plato, others on used it transitively);
1. to strike gently: τί (as a part or a member of the body), Acts 12:7.
2. to strike, smite: absolutely, ἐν μάχαιρα, with the sword, Luke 22:49; τινα, Matthew 26:51; Luke 22:50. by a use solely biblical, to afflict; to visit with evils, etc.: as with a deadly disease, τινα, Acts 12:23; τινα ἐν with the dative of the thing, Revelation 11:6 G L T Tr WH; Rev 19:15 (Genesis 8:21; Numbers 14:12; Exodus 12:23, etc.).
3. by a use solely biblical, to smite down, cut down, to kill, slay: τινα, Matthew 26:31 and Mark 14:27 (after Zechariah 13:7); Acts 7:24.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
8:21
Exodus
12:23
Numbers
14:12
Zechariah
13:7
Matthew
26:31; 26:51
Mark
14:27
Luke
22:49; 22:50
Acts
7:24; 12:7; 12:23
Revelation
11:6; 19:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3960 matches the Greek πατάσσω (patassō),
which occurs 39 times in 33 verses in '1Sa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:14 - And he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; everything that the fork brought up, the priest would take for himself. They did so in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - “Woe to us! Who will save us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3 - When the Ashdodites got up early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - After they had taken it away, the hand of the LORD was against the city, creating a very great panic; and He struck the people of the city, from the young to the old, so that tumors broke out on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 -

Now He fatally struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck 50,070 men among the people, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:11 - And the men of Israel came out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and killed them as far as below Beth-car.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:3 - And Jonathan attacked the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:13 - Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer behind him; and the men fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer put some to death after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - Now that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer inflicted was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an acre of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:31 -

They attacked the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. But the people were very tired.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:48

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:48 - And he acted valiantly and [fn]defeated the Amalekites, and saved Israel from the hands of [fn]those who plundered them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - ‘Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:7 - Then Saul [fn]defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah [fn]going toward Shur, which is [fn]east of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9 - “If he is able to fight me and [fn]kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and [fn]kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35 - I went out after it and [fn]attacked it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth; and when it rose up against me, I grabbed it by its mane and struck it and killed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:36 - “Your servant has [fn]killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:49 - And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone penetrated his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:7 - The women sang as they [fn]played, and said,

“Saul has slain his thousands,

And David his ten thousands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27 - David set out and went, he and his men, and fatally struck two hundred men among the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they presented all two hundred of them to the king, so that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5 - “For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great [fn]victory for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. Why then would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death [fn]for no reason?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 -

When there was war again, David went out and fought the Philistines and [fn]defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - And Saul tried to [fn]pin David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you [fn]killed in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying,

‘Saul has slain his thousands,

And David his ten thousands’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - He also struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; he also struck oxen, donkeys, and sheep with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - So David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and [fn]attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and [fn]attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - Then David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines; and he drove away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:5 - But it came about afterward that David’s [fn]conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul’s robe.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:38 - About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8 - Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has handed your enemy over to you; now then, please let me [fn]pin him with the spear to the ground with one thrust, and I will not [fn]do it to him a second time.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:5 - “Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying,

‘Saul has slain his thousands,

And David his ten thousands’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:1 -

Then it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had carried out an attack on the [fn]Negev and on Ziklag, and had [fn]overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - And David [fn]slaughtered them from the twilight [fn]until the evening of [fn]the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
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