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Strong's #5180: tupto (pronounced toop'-to)

a primary verb (in a strengthened form); to "thump", i.e. cudgel or pummel (properly, with a stick or bastinado), but in any case by repeated blows; thus differing from 3817 and 3960, which denote a (usually single) blow with the hand or any instrument, or 4141 with the fist (or a hammer), or 4474 with the palm; as well as from 5177, an accidental collision); by implication, to punish; figuratively, to offend (the conscience):--beat, smite, strike, wound.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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tuptō

1) to strike, beat, smite

1a) with a staff, a whip, the fist, the hand

1b) of mourners, to smite their breast

2) to smite one on whom he inflicts punitive evil

3) to smite

3a) metaphorically, i.e. to wound, disquiet one' s conscience

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primary verb (in a strengthened form)

Citing in TDNT: 8:260, 1195




Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Matthew 24:49: "And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink"
Matthew 27:30: "the reed, and smote him on the head."
Mark 15:19: "And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon"
Luke 6:29: " And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the"
Luke 12:45: "his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens,"
Luke 18:13: "unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying,"
Luke 22:64: "And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and"
Luke 23:48: "sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned."
Acts 18:17: "Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And"
Acts 21:32: "the soldiers, they left beating of Paul."
Acts 23:2: "commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth."
Acts 23:3: "him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for"
Acts 23:3: "and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?"
1 Corinthians 8:12: "the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin"









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