πιάζω piazō

Greek word for “to arrest/catch” · Strong’s G4084 · used 12 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

πιάζω; (cf. MGr. πιάνω; see Kennedy, Sources, 155), Doric and late Att..

How it is translated

Glosses given for piazō in context, with how often each is used:

• seize 3
• may seize 2
• take 1
• seized 1
• caught 1
• have caught 1
• having taken 1
• having seized 1
• captured 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

John 7 (3), John 21 (2), John 8 (1), John 10 (1), John 11 (1), Acts 3 (1), Acts 12 (1), 2 Corinthians 11 (1), Revelation 19 (1)

Forms

• πιάσαι 4
• πιάσωσιν 2
• πιάσας 2
• ἐπίασεν 1
• ἐπίασαν 1
• ἐπιάσατε 1
• ἐπιάσθη 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with piazō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• χείρ cheir “hand” 4
• οὐδείς oudeis “none” 4
• ἐπιβάλλω epiballō “to put on/seize” 2
• οὔπω oupō “not yet” 2
• Φαρισαῖος Pharisaios “Pharisee” 2
• ὥρα hōra “hour” 2
• ζητέω zēteō “to seek” 2
• ἀρχιερεύς archiereus “high-priest” 2
• ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai “to go out” 2
• μετά meta “with/after” 2

Key verses

The verses using piazō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• John 7:30 — Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
• John 7:32 — The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
• John 7:44 — And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
• John 8:20 — These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
• John 10:39 — Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
• John 11:57 — Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
• John 21:3 — Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they…
• John 21:10 — Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
• Acts 3:7 — And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
• Acts 12:4 — And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth…
• 2 Corinthians 11:32 — In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
• Revelation 19:20 — And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.