τύπτω
tuptō
to strike
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word τύπτω (tuptō) is a verb meaning "to strike." This action can refer to various types of physical contact, including hitting, beating, or striking with an object. The evidence from its 14 occurrences in the Bible reveals that τύπτω is often used in contexts involving physical harm, punishment, or violence. It is frequently associated with aggressive actions against another person or object. The range of usage for τύπτω includes biblical accounts of physical assault, punishment, or even accidental contact. Sometimes, the word conveys a sense of severity or intensity, such as when describing the consequences of sin or a divine judgment. For example, τύπτω might describe a person being struck by an object or by a divine hand. Given its frequency and various applications, τύπτω plays a significant role in conveying the physical and emotional consequences of human actions in the Bible. Its significance lies in its ability to illustrate the tangible effects of sin, punishment, or divine intervention.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
14 total occurrences across the text
and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
Matthew 27:30They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
Mark 15:19They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
Luke 6:29To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.
Luke 12:45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
Luke 18:13But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Luke 22:64Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”
Luke 23:48All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
Acts 18:17Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.
Acts 21:32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
Acts 23:2The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
Acts 23:3Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
Acts 23:3Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
1 Corinthians 8:12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.