STRONGS NUMBER G4474

Original Word: ῥαπίζω
Transliteration: rhapizō
Phonetic Spelling: (hrap-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to strike with a rod, to strike with the palm of the hand
Meaning: to strike with a rod, to strike with the palm of the handslap, smite with the palm of the hand.

From a derivative of a primary rhepo (to let fall, "rap"); to slap -- smite (with the palm of the hand). Compare tupto.

see GREEK tupto

STRONGS NT 4474: ῤαπίζω

ῤαπίζω; future ῥαπίσω (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32f)); 1 aorist ἐρράπισα and (so L T Tr WH) ἐραπισα (see Rho); (from ῤαπίς a rod);

1. to smite with a rod or staff (Xenophanes in (Diogenes Laërtius 8, 36; Herodotus, Demosthenes, Polybius, Plutarch, others).

2. "to smite in the face with the palm of the hand, to box the ear: τινα, Matthew 26:67 (where it is distinguished from κολαφίζω (A. V. buffet); for Suidas says ῥαπισαι. πατάσσειν τήν γνάθον ἁπλῆ τῇ χειρί not with the fist; hence, the Vulg. renders itpalmas in faciem ei dederunt; (A. V. marginal reading (R. V. marginal reading) adopt sense 1 above)); τινα ἐπί (L T Tr text WH εἰς) τήν σιαγόνα, Matthew 5:39 (Hosea 11:4). Cf. Fischer, De vitiis Lexicons, etc., p. 61ff; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 175; (Schmidt, Syn., chapter 113, 10; Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 71).