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Strike

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

* Notes: (1) In Revelation 7:16 , pipto, "to fall," is rendered "strike" in the RV, AV, "light (on)." (2) In Acts 27:41 , ereido, "to fix firmly," is used of a ship driving ashore, RV, "struck" (AV, "stuck fast"). (3) For paio, "to smite," Revelation 9:5 , AV, "striketh," see SMITE , No. 3. (4) For patasso, "to smite," Matthew 26:51 , AV, "struck," see SMITE , No. 1. (5) For chalao, "to let go," Acts 27:17 , AV, "strake," see LET DOWN , No. 2. (6) In Luke 22:64 some mss. have tupto, "to beat," imperfect tense, "they were beating." (7) For rhapizo, Matthew 26:67 , and rhapisma, Mark 14:65 , see BLOW , SMITE , No. 6 and Note (2). Some mss. have ballo, "struck."