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Lexicon :: Strong's G681 - aptō

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ἅπτω
Transliteration
aptō (Key)
Pronunciation
hap'-to
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary word
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Strong’s Definitions

†ἅπτω háptō, hap'-to; a primary verb; properly, to fasten to, i.e. (specially) to set on fire:—kindle, light.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G681 in the following manner: light (3x), kindle (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G681 in the following manner: light (3x), kindle (1x).

  1. to fasten to, adhere to

    1. to fasten fire to a thing, kindle, set of fire

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ἅπτω háptō, hap'-to; a primary verb; properly, to fasten to, i.e. (specially) to set on fire:—kindle, light.
STRONGS G681:
ἅπτω; 1 aorist participle ἅψας; (cf. Latin apto, German heften); [from Homer down];
1. properly, to fasten to, make adhere to; hence, specifically to fasten fire to a thing, to kindle, set on fire, (often so in Attic): λύχνον, Luke 8:16; Luke 11:33; Luke 15:8 (Aristophanes nub. 57; Theophrastus, char. 20 (18); Josephus, Antiquities 4, 3, 4); πῦρ, Luke 22:55 [T Tr text WH περιαψάντων); πυράν, Acts 28:2 L T Tr WH.
2. Middle [present ἅπτομαι]; imperfect ἡπτόμην [Mark 6:56 R G Tr marginal reading]; 1 aorist ἡψάμην; in the Sept. generally for נָגַע, הִגִּיעַ; properly, to fasten oneself to, adhere to, cling to, (Homer, Iliad 8, 67);
a. to touch, followed by the object in genitive [Winers Grammar, § 30, 8 c.; Buttmann, 167 (146); cf. Donaldson, p. 483]: Matthew 8:3; Mark 3:10; Mark 7:33; Mark 8:22, etc.; Luke 18:15; Luke 22:51 — very often in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In John 20:17, μή μου ἅπτου is to be explained thus: Do not handle me to see whether I am still clothed with a body; there is no need of such an examination, "for not yet" etc.; cf. Baumg.-Crusius and Meyer at the passage [as given by Hackett in Bib. Sacr. for 1868, p. 779f, or B. D. American edition, p. 1813f].
b. γυναικός, of carnal intercourse with a woman, or cohabitation, 1 Corinthians 7:1, like the Latin tangere, Horace sat. 1, 2, 54: Terence, Heaut. 4, 4, 15, and the Hebrew נָגַע, Genesis 20:6; Proverbs 6:29 (Plato, de legg. viii. 840 a.; Plutarch, Alex. Magn. c. 21).
c. with allusion to the levitical precept ἀκαθάρτου μὴ ἅπτεσθε, have no intercourse with the Gentiles, no fellowship in their heathenish practices, 2 Corinthians 6:17 (from Isaiah 52:11); and in the Jewish sense, μὴ ἅψῃ, Colossians 2:21 (the things not to be touched appear to be both women and certain kinds of food, so that, celibacy and abstinence from various kinds of food and drink are recommended; cf. DeWette at the passage [but also Meyer and Bp. Lightfoot; on the distinction between the stronger term ἅπτεσθαι (to handle?) and the more delicate θιγεῖν (to touch?) cf. the two commentators just named and Trench, § xvii. In classic Greek also ἅπτεσθαι is the stronger term, denoting often to lay hold of, hold fast, appropriate; in its carnal reference differing from θιγγάνειν by suggesting unlawfulness. θιγγάνειν, is used of touching by the hand as a means of knowledge, handling for a purpose; ψηλαφᾶν signifies to feel around with the fingers or hands, especially in searching for something, often to grope, fumble, cf. ψηλαφίνδα blindman's buff. Schmidt, chapter 10.]).
d. to touch i. e. assail: τινός, anyone, 1 John 5:18 (1 Chronicles 16:22, etc.). [Compare: ἀν-, καθ-, περιάπτω.]

Related entry:
περιάπτω: 1 aorist participle περιάψας; [from Pindar down];
1. to bind or to tie around, to put around, [περί III. 1]; to hang upon, attach to.
2. to kindle a fire around [or thoroughly; see περικρύπτω, περικαλύπτω, περικρατής, περίλυπος, etc.] (Phalaris ep. 5, p. 28): Luke 22:55 T WH Tr text.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
20:6
1 Chronicles
16:22
Proverbs
6:29
Isaiah
52:11
Matthew
8:3
Mark
3:10; 6:56; 7:33; 8:22
Luke
8:16; 11:33; 15:8; 18:15; 22:51; 22:55; 22:55
John
20:17
Acts
28:2
1 Corinthians
7:1
2 Corinthians
6:17
Colossians
2:21
1 John
5:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G681 matches the Greek ἅπτω (aptō),
which occurs 40 times in 38 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:3 - Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:15 - He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:20 - Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:21 - She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:29 - Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:36 - and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:7 - But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:34 - Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:41 - Jesus was indignant.[fn] He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:10 - For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:27 - When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:28 - because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:30 - At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:31 - “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:33 - After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:22 - They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:13 - People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:13 - Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:19 - and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:14 - Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:39 - When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:16 - “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:44 - She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:45 - “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:46 - But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:47 - Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:33 - “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:8 - “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins[fn] and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:15 - People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:51 - But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:55 - And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:17 - Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:2 - The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:1 - Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:17 - Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate,

says the Lord.

Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:21 - “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:18 - We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.
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