STRONGS NUMBER G3960


Word Summary
patassō: to beat (of the heart), to strike
Original Word: πατάσσω
Transliteration: patassō
Phonetic Spelling: (pat-as'-so)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to beat (of the heart), to strike
Meaning: to beat (of the heart), to strike
Strong's Concordance
smite, strike.

Probably prolongation from paio; to knock (gently or with a weapon or fatally) -- smite, strike. Compare tupto.

see GREEK paio

see GREEK tupto

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3960: πατάσσω

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; (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.