noun · feminine
mastigas
Strong’sG3148
a scourge, lash, sufferings
stem mastig-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 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.
μάστιξ, -ιγος, ἡ,
[in LXX for שׁוֹט, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3148 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmas'-tix
a whip (literally, the Roman flagellum for criminals; figuratively, a disease)
Fromprobably from the base of G3145 (through the idea of contact);
King Jamesplague, scourging.
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
whip, scourge, mostly for driving horses, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἵππου μ. horse-whip, Refs 5th c.BC+; λιγυρὰ μ. διπλῆ Refs 5th c.BC+; later, scourge, ὑπὸ μαστίγων διαβαίνειν to cross under the lash, of soldiers flogged on, Refs 5th c.BC+; μάστιγ᾽ ἔχων whip in hand, Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, scourge, plague, μάστιξ Διός Refs 8th c.BC+; διπλῇ μ., τὴν Ἄρης φιλεῖ, i.e. fire and sword, Refs; μ. [Θεοῦ], of sickness, NT; but μάστιξ Πειθοῦς the lash of eloquence, Refs 5th c.BC+ — _Ionic dialect_ μάστις (which see): μάστιγξ is not found.
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.
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 | mastigas | mastigais |
| object accusative | mastigan | mastigain1×μάστιγας |
| direct address vocative | mastigar | mastigair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mastigau2×μάστιγος | mastigaiu2×μαστίγων |
| to, for dative | mastiga | mastigai1×μάστιξιν |
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
mastiga 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
mastigau“affliction”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Mark 5:29… te sōme hoti iotē apo tau mastigau.… that she was healed of her affliction.
Mark 5:34… eirēnan, kai asōr hugias apo tau mastigau su.… peace and be free of your affliction.”
mastigain“diseases”objectaccusative plural1×
Mark 3:10… auto hina autou hapteleia hosois echale mastigain.… so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
mastigaiu“flogging”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Luke 7:21… hōra therapeuata polloin apo nosaiu kai mastigaiu kai pneumeiu ponēreiu, kai tufloi polloi …… healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He gave …
Hebrews 11:36heterois de empaigmoiu kai mastigaiu peiran labala, ēti de desmoiu kai …Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
mastigai“scourging”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 22:24“scourging”… eisagorō auton eis tan parembolan, legarantos mastigai anetazorō auton hina epignōskateia dia han …… Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry …