Strong G4120πλέκω
to weave
- Transliteration
- plekō
- Pronunciation
- plek'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary word; to twine or braid: - plait.
Detailed definition
πλέκω
[in LXX: Exo.28:14 (עֲבֹת), Isa.28:5 (צְפִירָה)*;]
to plait, twist, weave: Mat.27:29, Mrk.15:17, Jhn.19:2.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Exo.28:14 (עֲבֹת), Isa.28:5 (צְפִירָה)*;]
to plait, twist, weave: Mat.27:29, Mrk.15:17, Jhn.19:2.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4120 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- plat3
First verses
- Matthew 27:29And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
- Mark 15:17And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
- John 19:2And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
πλέκ-ω,
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.86, etc.)]: future πλέξω [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.146 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus))]: aorist ἔπλεξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.176, etc.:)]perfect πέπλοχα (Attic dialect accusative to Hdn.Gr.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (2.356), (δια-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 16, (ἐμ-) [prev. passage], but ἐμ-πέπλεχε [prev. work] 17)]:—middle, future πλέξομαι [Refs 5th c.AD+ (Perictione Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.28.19)]: aorist ἐπλεξάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.168, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 790:)] —passive, future πλεχθήσομαι (ἐμ-) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1079 (_anapaest meter_))]; πλᾰκήσομαι (ἐπι-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.873)]: aorist ἐπλέχθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 259 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 283a, (περι-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.33)]; but also aorist 2 ἐπλάκην [ᾰ], participle πλᾰκείς (ἐμ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1236, (συμ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 618)]; also participle κατα-πλεκείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, variant in 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.73.1, περι-πλεκείς 5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 157, συμπλεκείς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.84 (variant{-πλακ-}))]: perfect πέπλεγμαι [Refs ([prev. author] 7.72, etc.)]:—plait, twine, πλοκάμους ἔπλεξε φαεινούς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.176; στέφανον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).73, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 458; ἐκ τῆς βίβλου ἱστία 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.8.4; ἀνθερίκεσσι ἀκριδοθήραν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.52:)] —middle, πεῖσμα.. πλεξάμενος having twisted me a rope, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.168, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.28; π. ἄρκυς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 790 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, κράνεα πεπλεγμένα of basket-work, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.72)]; χρέωνται σειρῇσι πεπλεγμένῃσι ἐξ ἱμάντων[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 85; βρόχος πεπλ. σπάρτου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 9.13.)]
2 make by art, βωμόν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 61.)]
II metaphorically, devise, contrive, mostly of tortuous means, π. δόλον ἀμφί τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 220: proverbial, δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς Αἰγύπτιοι [prev. author] “fragment” 373; so π. πλοκάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 826)]; ἐκ τέχνης τέχνην[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1280; παντοίας παλάμας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 644 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, μηχανὴ πεπλεγμένη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 995.)]
II.2 of Poets, π. ὕμνον, ῥήματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.86, “N.” 4.94; ᾠδάς 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus “fragment” 1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; π. λόγους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 834, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Mi.” 369b)]; form the plot of a tragedy, opposed to λύειν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456a9:)] —hence in passive, μῦθοι πεπλεγμένοι complex, opposed to ἁπλοῖ, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1452a12, compare b32, 1459b9; συλλογισμὸς πεπλ. 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.29.34; πέπλεκται [ἡ τῶν συμπάντων τῶν ὄντων νομοθεσία] ἐκ.. λόγων τε καὶ αἰτίων κτλ. 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.3.15.)]
II.3 χρόνον τοῦ ζῆν π., ={διαπλέκω}[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (11, 3rd c.BC: Euphro Comicus 5.)]
II.4 compound, ἐκ λευκοῦ καὶ μέλανος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 12.165 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus))]:—passive, of words or syllables, to be compounded, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 202b, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 5.30.)]
II.5 passive, twine oneself round, περὶ βρέτει πλεχθεὶς θεᾶς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 259 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.6 passive, to be involved, entangled, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 169.32)]. (Cf. Latin plecto, im-plico, OHG. flehtan.)
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.86, etc.)]: future πλέξω [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.146 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus))]: aorist ἔπλεξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.176, etc.:)]perfect πέπλοχα (Attic dialect accusative to Hdn.Gr.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (2.356), (δια-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 16, (ἐμ-) [prev. passage], but ἐμ-πέπλεχε [prev. work] 17)]:—middle, future πλέξομαι [Refs 5th c.AD+ (Perictione Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.28.19)]: aorist ἐπλεξάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.168, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 790:)] —passive, future πλεχθήσομαι (ἐμ-) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1079 (_anapaest meter_))]; πλᾰκήσομαι (ἐπι-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.873)]: aorist ἐπλέχθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 259 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 283a, (περι-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.33)]; but also aorist 2 ἐπλάκην [ᾰ], participle πλᾰκείς (ἐμ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1236, (συμ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 618)]; also participle κατα-πλεκείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, variant in 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.73.1, περι-πλεκείς 5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 157, συμπλεκείς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.84 (variant{-πλακ-}))]: perfect πέπλεγμαι [Refs ([prev. author] 7.72, etc.)]:—plait, twine, πλοκάμους ἔπλεξε φαεινούς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.176; στέφανον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).73, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 458; ἐκ τῆς βίβλου ἱστία 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.8.4; ἀνθερίκεσσι ἀκριδοθήραν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.52:)] —middle, πεῖσμα.. πλεξάμενος having twisted me a rope, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.168, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.28; π. ἄρκυς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 790 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, κράνεα πεπλεγμένα of basket-work, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.72)]; χρέωνται σειρῇσι πεπλεγμένῃσι ἐξ ἱμάντων[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 85; βρόχος πεπλ. σπάρτου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 9.13.)]
2 make by art, βωμόν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 61.)]
II metaphorically, devise, contrive, mostly of tortuous means, π. δόλον ἀμφί τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 220: proverbial, δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς Αἰγύπτιοι [prev. author] “fragment” 373; so π. πλοκάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 826)]; ἐκ τέχνης τέχνην[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1280; παντοίας παλάμας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 644 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, μηχανὴ πεπλεγμένη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 995.)]
II.2 of Poets, π. ὕμνον, ῥήματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.86, “N.” 4.94; ᾠδάς 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus “fragment” 1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; π. λόγους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 834, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Mi.” 369b)]; form the plot of a tragedy, opposed to λύειν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456a9:)] —hence in passive, μῦθοι πεπλεγμένοι complex, opposed to ἁπλοῖ, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1452a12, compare b32, 1459b9; συλλογισμὸς πεπλ. 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.29.34; πέπλεκται [ἡ τῶν συμπάντων τῶν ὄντων νομοθεσία] ἐκ.. λόγων τε καὶ αἰτίων κτλ. 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.3.15.)]
II.3 χρόνον τοῦ ζῆν π., ={διαπλέκω}[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (11, 3rd c.BC: Euphro Comicus 5.)]
II.4 compound, ἐκ λευκοῦ καὶ μέλανος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 12.165 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus))]:—passive, of words or syllables, to be compounded, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 202b, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 5.30.)]
II.5 passive, twine oneself round, περὶ βρέτει πλεχθεὶς θεᾶς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 259 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.6 passive, to be involved, entangled, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 169.32)]. (Cf. Latin plecto, im-plico, OHG. flehtan.)