to strike

Greek Verb

παίω [in LXX chiefly for נָכָה hi;] to strike, smite: with the hand or fist, Mat.26:68, Luk.22:64; with a sword, Mrk.14:47, Jhn.18:10; of a reptile, to sting: Rev.9:5. (AS)

to strike

Greek Verb

παίω, Boeotian dialect πήω Hdn.Gr.2.949; Attic dialect 2nd pers. singular imperative παῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+] codices: future παίσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔπαισα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect πέπαικα [LXX+5th c.BC+]:—middle, imperfect ἐπαιόμην [Refs 1st c.AD+]: aorist ἐπαισάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist ἐπαίσθην [Refs 4th c.BC+]perfect πέπαισμαι (ἐμ-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but the passive tenses were mainly supplied by πλήσσω (παίσαντές τε καὶ πληγέντες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; and ἐπάταξα (from πατάσσω) was generally used as aorist:—poet. Verb (not in [Refs 8th c.BC+], strike, smite, whether with the hand, or with a rod or other weapon, σκυτάλοισί τινας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παῖε πᾶς strike home!, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παισάτω πᾶς (παῖς codices), παῖ δή, παῖ δή [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀνταίαν ἔπαισέν τις (i.e. πληγήν) ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἅλμην, of rowers, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, ἐπαίσατο τὸν μηρόν he smote his thigh, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, παιομένους [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πὺξ παιόμενος, opposed to ἐγχειριδίῳ πληγείς, [Refs 5th c.BC+] b) rarely of missiles, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, τὰ παιόμενα τοῖς κεραυνοῖς [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of atoms, παίονται καὶ παίουσι τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον [Refs] 2) with accusative instrumenti, drive, dash one thing against another, ναῦς ἐν νηῒ στόλον ἔπαισε struck its beak against, [Refs 5th c.BC+] 3) drive away, τοὺς σφῆκας ἀπὸ τῆς οἰκίας [Refs 5th c.BC+] 4) of sexual intercourse, [Refs] 5) hit hard in speaking, π. στρογγύλοις τοῖς ῥήμασιν [Refs 4th c.AD+] 6) metaphorically, quench one's thirst, διψῶντα. ὄξει παίειν [Refs 4th c.BC+] II) intransitive, strike, dash against or upon, λόγοι παίουσ᾽ εἰκῇ πρὸς κύμασιν ἄτης [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λανθάνει στήλην ἄκραν παίσας, of a charioteer, [Refs 5th c.BC+], cf. Latin pavio, pavimentum.) III) devour, παίειν ἐφ᾽ ἁλὶ τὴν μάδδαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; perhaps to be read in [Refs 5th c.BC+]: it has been doubted whether this is the same word as παίω [Refs]

Greek

to hit (as if by a single blow and less violently than g5180 (τύπτω)); specially, to sting (as a scorpion); smite, strike; a primary verb