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Lexicon :: Strong's G726 - harpazō

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ἁρπάζω
Transliteration
harpazō (Key)
Pronunciation
har-pad'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of αἱρέω (G138)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:472,80

Strong’s Definitions

ἁρπάζω harpázō, har-pad'-zo; from a derivative of G138; to seize (in various applications):—catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's G726 in the following manner: caught up (4x), by force (3x), caught away (1x), catcheth away (1x), pluck (2x), catcheth (1x), pulling (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G726 in the following manner: caught up (4x), by force (3x), caught away (1x), catcheth away (1x), pluck (2x), catcheth (1x), pulling (1x).

  1. to seize, carry off by force

  2. to seize on, claim for one's self eagerly

  3. to snatch out or away

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἁρπάζω harpázō, har-pad'-zo; from a derivative of G138; to seize (in various applications):—catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).
STRONGS G726:
ἁρπάζω; future ἁρπάσω [Veitch, under the word; cf. Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 407]; 1 aorist ἥρπασα; passive, 1 aorist ἡρπάσθην; 2 aorist ἡρπάγην (2 Corinthians 12:2, 4; Wis. 4:11; cf. Winers Grammar, 83 (80); [Buttmann, 54 (47); WH's Appendix, p. 170]); 2 future ἁρπαγήσομαι; [(Latin rapio; Curtius, § 331); from Homer down]; to seize, carry off by force: τί [Matthew 12:29 not R G (see διαρπάζω)]; John 10:12; to seize on, claim for oneself eagerly: τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ, Matthew 11:12 (Xenophon, an. 6, 5, 18, etc.); to snatch out or away: τί, Matthew 13:19; τὶ ἐκ χειρός τινος, John 10:28f; τινὰ ἐκ πυρός, proverbial, to rescue from the danger of destruction, Jude 1:23 (Amos 4:11; Zechariah 3:2); τινα, to seize and carry off speedily, John 6:15; Acts 23:10; used of divine power transferring a person marvellously and swiftly from one place to another, to snatch or catch away: Acts 8:39; passive, πρὸς τ. θεόν, Revelation 12:5; followed by ἕως with the genitive of place, 2 Corinthians 12:2; εἰς τ. παράδεισον, 2 Corinthians 12:4; εἰς ἀέρα, 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
[Compare: δι-, συναρπάζω.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Amos
4:11
Zechariah
3:2
Matthew
11:12; 12:29; 13:19
John
6:15; 10:12; 10:28
Acts
8:39; 23:10
2 Corinthians
12:2; 12:2; 12:4; 12:4
1 Thessalonians
4:17
Jude
1:23
Revelation
12:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G726 matches the Greek ἁρπάζω (harpazō),
which occurs 33 times in 32 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - And he recognised it, and said, It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast has devoured him; a wild beast has carried off Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:4 - (LXX 5:23) it shall come to pass, whensoever he shall have sinned, and transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder which he has seized, or redress the injury which he has committed, or restore the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost article which he has found

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - Thou shalt not injure thy neighbour, neither do thou rob him, neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31 - Thy calf shall be slain before thee, and thou shalt not eat of it; thine ass shall be violently taken away from thee, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - and ye shall see; and lo! if there come out the daughters of the inhabitants of Selom to dance in dances, then shall ye go out of the vineyards and seize for yourselves every man a wife of the daughters of Selom, and go ye into the land of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - He smote an Egyptian, [fn]a wonderful man, and in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear as the side of a ladder; and he went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:19 - For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:2 - while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9 - They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:2 - (LXX 7:3) Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:9 - (LXX 9:30) He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:13 - (LXX 21:14) They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:22 - (LXX 49:22) Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there be no deliverer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:4 - (LXX 68:5) They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I [fn]restored that which I took not away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:21 - (LXX 103:21) even young lions roaring for prey, and to seek meat for themselves from God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:7 - and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:16 - and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:18 - But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3 - And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:6 - And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:25 - whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and thy widows are multiplied in the midst of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:27 - Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14 - Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:1 - Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will smite, and bind us up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion's whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:2 - who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - (LXX 5:7) And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:12 - (LXX 2:13) The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.
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