harpagas

Strong’sG724

the act of plundering, plunder, spoil

stem harpag-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἁρπαγή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< ἁρπάζω), [in LXX (as also ἅρπαγμα) for גָּזֵל, etc.;]

pillage, plundering, robbery: Mt 23:25, Lk 11:39, He 10:34.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G724 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhar-pag-ay'

pillage (properly abstract)

Fromfrom G726;

King Jamesextortion, ravening, spoiling.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἁρπαγ-ή, ἡ,
seizure, robbery, rape, first in Refs 6th c.BC+; ὀφλὼν ἁρπαγῆς δίκην found guilty of rape, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἁρπαγὴν ποιεῖσθαι, ποιεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, of a single act, συνεπρήξαντο τὰς Ἑλένης ἁ.Refs 4th c.BC+; Καδμείων ἁ., of the Sphinx, Refs 5th c.BC+
II thing seized, booty, prey, τοῦ φθάσαντος ἁ.Refs 4th c.BC+; ἁ. κυσί, θηρσί, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἁρπαγὴν ποιεῖσθαί τι to make booty of a thing. Refs 5th c.BC+
III greediness, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV ἐν ἁρπαγῇ σελήνης when the moon is invisible, Refs

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

greed2×plundering1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	harpagas	harpagais
object accusative	harpagan1×ἁρπαγὴν	harpagain
direct address vocative	harpagar	harpagair
of, belonging to genitive	harpagau2×ἁρπαγῆς	harpagaiu
to, for dative	harpaga	harpagai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

harpagstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

harpaga is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

harpagos — ἅρπαξ, rapacious, ravenous, a robber, an extortioner

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

harpagan“plundering”objectaccusative singular1×

Hebrews 10:34“plundering”… gar toi desmioi sumpathava, kai tan harpagan teiu huparcharōnteiu vu meta charau prosdecheva, …You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that …

harpagau“greed”of, belonging togenitive singular2×

Matthew 23:25… tau paropsidau, esōthen de gemalō ek harpagau kai akrasiau.… but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Luke 11:39… katharizavō, tem de esōthen vu gematō harpagau kai ponēriau.… but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.