Strong G726ἁρπάζω
to seize
- Transliteration
- harpazō
- Pronunciation
- har-pad'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From a derivative of G138; to seize (in various applications): - catch (away up) pluck pull take (by force).
Detailed definition
ἁρπάζω
[in LXX chiefly for גָּזַל, טָרַף;]
to seize, catch up, snatch away, carry off by force: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.12:29 13:19, Jhn.10:12, 28-29; τ. βασιλείαν τ. θεοῦ, Mat.11:12; with accusative of person(s), Jhn.6:15, Act.8:39 23:10, Ju 23; pass., before ἕως, 2Co.12:2; εἰς, 2Co.12:4, 1Th.4:17; πρός, Rev.12:5 (cf. δι-, συν-αρπάζω, and see MM, see word).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for גָּזַל, טָרַף;]
to seize, catch up, snatch away, carry off by force: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.12:29 13:19, Jhn.10:12, 28-29; τ. βασιλείαν τ. θεοῦ, Mat.11:12; with accusative of person(s), Jhn.6:15, Act.8:39 23:10, Ju 23; pass., before ἕως, 2Co.12:2; εἰς, 2Co.12:4, 1Th.4:17; πρός, Rev.12:5 (cf. δι-, συν-αρπάζω, and see MM, see word).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G726 appears in 13 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- catch5
- force3
- take3
- catcheth2
- pluck2
- pull1
- shall1
First verses
- Matthew 11:12And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Matthew 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
- John 6:15When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
- John 10:12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
- John 10:28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- John 10:29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
- Acts 8:39And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
- Acts 23:10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
- 2 Corinthians 12:2I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
- 2 Corinthians 12:4How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
- Jude 1:23And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
- Revelation 12:5And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἁρπάζω,
future -άξω[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.310, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 89.2,)] -άσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 4.17)], (ἀν-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1303)]; in Attic dialect more commonly ἁρπάσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1118, “Ec.” 866, “Av.” 1460, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.5)], (ἀν-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.59)]; contraction ἁρπῶμαι, ἁρπᾷ[LXX (LXX.Lev.19.13, +others)]: aorist ἥρπαξα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.444, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.67, “IG” 4.951.11 (Epid.))]; Trag. and Attic dialect ἥρπασα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1634, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.101 (also 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.528, 17.62, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156))]: perfect ἥρπακα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 372, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 481a)]:—middle, aorist ἡρπασάμην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 22, etc. ὑφ-αρπάσαιο 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 921))]:—passive, perfect ἥρπασμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.27, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1079)] (ἀν-): [Refs (3)]pluperfect ἥρπαστο[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “El.” 1041; later ἥρπαγμαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.18.7)], infinitive -άχθαι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.1.11:)]aorist 1 ἡρπάσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1 and)] 4, etc., -χθην [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.90 (variant), 8.115, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.74)]; later, aorist 2 ἡρπάγην [ᾰ] [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 505, etc.)]: future ἁρπᾰγήσομαι[NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.1Thes.4.17, 1st c.AD Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.10.3)]; participle ἁρπάμενος (as if from ἅρπημι) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.59 (1st c.AD(?): Macedonius Epigrammaticus), 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 1.340, +others)], (ὑφ-) [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.619 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus))]:—snatch away, carry off, ὅτε σε πρῶτον Λακεδαίμονος ἐξ ἐρατεινῆς ἔπλεον ἁρπάξας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.444)]; ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε τίς τε λέων.. ἀγέλης βοῦν ἁρπάσῃ[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 17.62; τοὺς δ᾽ αἶψ᾽ ἁρπάξασα φέρεν πόντονδε θύελλα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.48, compare 5.416; κλέψαι τε χἁρπάσαι βίᾳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 644; ἁ. τοῦ βασιλέος τὴν θυγατέρα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.2; ἁ. [χρυσὸν] ὑπὲκ τῶν γρυπῶν [prev. author] 3.116; ἁ. καὶ φέρειν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.17)]: absolutely, to be a robber, ὁτιὴ ’πιώρκεις ἡρπακώς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 428, compare “Pl.” 372)]; ἁρπάζειν βλέπει looks thievish, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 181:)] —passive (or middle), ἐκ χερῶν ἁρπάζομαι I have her torn from my arms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 661.)]
2 seize hastily, snatch up, λᾶαν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.445; δόρυ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 624; τὰ ὅπλα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.8)]; ἁ. τινὰ μέσον seize him by the waist, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.107)]; λίθος ἥτις τὸν σίδηρον ἁρπάζει, of the magnet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Steril.” 243: with _genitive_ of the part seized, ἁ. τινὰ τένοντος ποδός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 400: with _genitive_ _partitive_, ἁ. τούτων ἐνέτραγον 4th c.BC: Timocles Comicus 16.7: _absolutely_, ἀπογεύονται ἁρπάζοντες)]greedily, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 354b)]:—middle in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 3.)]
3 seize, overpower, overmaster, γλῶσσαν ἁ. φόβος[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 259)]; seize, occupy a post, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.11)]; ἁρπάσαι πεῖραν seize an opportunity of attacking, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 2; ἁ. τὸν καιρόν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 15)]; snap up, ὥσπερ εὕρημα[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.30.)]
4 seize, adopt a legend, of an author, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156.)]
5 grasp with the senses, ὀσμαὶ -όμεναι ταῖς ὀσφρήσεσιν[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.647e.)]
6 captivate, ravish, [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Jdt.16.9, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 28.)]
7 draw up by means of a vacuum, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 647.28.)]
II plunder, πόλεις, τὰ ἐκ τῶν οἰκιῶν, τὴν Ἑλλάδα, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.5, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.55, etc.)]
future -άξω[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.310, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 89.2,)] -άσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 4.17)], (ἀν-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1303)]; in Attic dialect more commonly ἁρπάσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1118, “Ec.” 866, “Av.” 1460, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.5)], (ἀν-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.59)]; contraction ἁρπῶμαι, ἁρπᾷ[LXX (LXX.Lev.19.13, +others)]: aorist ἥρπαξα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.444, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.67, “IG” 4.951.11 (Epid.))]; Trag. and Attic dialect ἥρπασα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1634, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.101 (also 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.528, 17.62, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156))]: perfect ἥρπακα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 372, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 481a)]:—middle, aorist ἡρπασάμην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 22, etc. ὑφ-αρπάσαιο 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 921))]:—passive, perfect ἥρπασμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.27, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1079)] (ἀν-): [Refs (3)]pluperfect ἥρπαστο[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “El.” 1041; later ἥρπαγμαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.18.7)], infinitive -άχθαι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.1.11:)]aorist 1 ἡρπάσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1 and)] 4, etc., -χθην [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.90 (variant), 8.115, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.74)]; later, aorist 2 ἡρπάγην [ᾰ] [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 505, etc.)]: future ἁρπᾰγήσομαι[NT+1st c.AD+ (NT.1Thes.4.17, 1st c.AD Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.10.3)]; participle ἁρπάμενος (as if from ἅρπημι) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.59 (1st c.AD(?): Macedonius Epigrammaticus), 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 1.340, +others)], (ὑφ-) [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.619 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus))]:—snatch away, carry off, ὅτε σε πρῶτον Λακεδαίμονος ἐξ ἐρατεινῆς ἔπλεον ἁρπάξας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.444)]; ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε τίς τε λέων.. ἀγέλης βοῦν ἁρπάσῃ[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 17.62; τοὺς δ᾽ αἶψ᾽ ἁρπάξασα φέρεν πόντονδε θύελλα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.48, compare 5.416; κλέψαι τε χἁρπάσαι βίᾳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 644; ἁ. τοῦ βασιλέος τὴν θυγατέρα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.2; ἁ. [χρυσὸν] ὑπὲκ τῶν γρυπῶν [prev. author] 3.116; ἁ. καὶ φέρειν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.17)]: absolutely, to be a robber, ὁτιὴ ’πιώρκεις ἡρπακώς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 428, compare “Pl.” 372)]; ἁρπάζειν βλέπει looks thievish, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 181:)] —passive (or middle), ἐκ χερῶν ἁρπάζομαι I have her torn from my arms, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 661.)]
2 seize hastily, snatch up, λᾶαν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.445; δόρυ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 624; τὰ ὅπλα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.8)]; ἁ. τινὰ μέσον seize him by the waist, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.107)]; λίθος ἥτις τὸν σίδηρον ἁρπάζει, of the magnet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Steril.” 243: with _genitive_ of the part seized, ἁ. τινὰ τένοντος ποδός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 400: with _genitive_ _partitive_, ἁ. τούτων ἐνέτραγον 4th c.BC: Timocles Comicus 16.7: _absolutely_, ἀπογεύονται ἁρπάζοντες)]greedily, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 354b)]:—middle in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 3.)]
3 seize, overpower, overmaster, γλῶσσαν ἁ. φόβος[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 259)]; seize, occupy a post, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.11)]; ἁρπάσαι πεῖραν seize an opportunity of attacking, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 2; ἁ. τὸν καιρόν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 15)]; snap up, ὥσπερ εὕρημα[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.30.)]
4 seize, adopt a legend, of an author, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156.)]
5 grasp with the senses, ὀσμαὶ -όμεναι ταῖς ὀσφρήσεσιν[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.647e.)]
6 captivate, ravish, [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Jdt.16.9, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 28.)]
7 draw up by means of a vacuum, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 647.28.)]
II plunder, πόλεις, τὰ ἐκ τῶν οἰκιῶν, τὴν Ἑλλάδα, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.5, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.55, etc.)]