Strong's #4084: piazo (pronounced pee-ad'-zo)

probably another form of 971; to squeeze, i.e. seize (gently by the hand (press), or officially (arrest), or in hunting (capture)):--apprehend, catch, lay hand on, take. Compare 4085.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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piazō

1) to lay hold of

2) to take, capture

2a) of fishes

3) to apprehend

3a) of a man, in order to imprison him

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: probably another form of G971

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

John 7:30: "Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands"
John 7:32: "sent officers to take him."
John 7:44: "of them would have taken him; but no man laid"
John 8:20: "temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour"
John 10:39: "Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of"
John 11:57: "he were, he should show it, that they might take him."
John 21:3: "and that night they caught nothing."
John 21:10: "fish which ye have now caught."
Acts 3:7: "And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and"
Acts 12:4: "And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four"
2 Corinthians 11:32: "king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:"
Revelation 19:20: "And the beast was taken, and with him the"