Paizo means “play” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3815 — lael in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3815 παίζω (paizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paizo (paid'-zo) v. 1. to play as a child, to sport 2. to amuse oneself as a child It has 25 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include play. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
paizo (paid'-zo) v. 1. to play as a child, to sport 2. to amuse oneself as a child [from G3816] KJV: play Root(s): G3816
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3815. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to play
Usage: παίζω (παῖς), [in LXX: Gen.21:9 26:8, Exo.32:6 (צָחַק pi.); and more frequently (Jdg.16:25, al.) for (שָׂחַק pi. ;] prop., to play as a child, hence, generally, to play (as with singing and dancing) : 1Co.10:7 (LXX) (cf. ἐμ-παίζω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3815 (παίζω) appears 25 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
21 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Sarah having seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian who was born to Abraham, sporting with Isaac her son,
And he remained there a long time, and Abimelech the king of Gerar leaned to look through the window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And having risen early on the morrow, he offered whole burnt offerings, and offered a peace offering; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And all their brethren played, and he made them go up together with them.
Do not think to corrupt with gifts: for such he will not receive: And trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; For the Lord is judge, And with him is no respect of persons.
He played with lions as with kids, And with bears as with lambs.
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3815.
And Sarah having seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian who was born to Abraham, sporting with Isaac her son,
And he remained there a long time, and Abimelech the king of Gerar leaned to look through the window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And having risen early on the morrow, he offered whole burnt offerings, and offered a peace offering; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Samson out of the prison house, and let him play before us: and they called Samson out of the prison house, and he played before them; and they smote him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars.
And all Israel heard say, Saul has smitten Nasib the Philistine; now Israel had been put to shame before the Philistines; and the children of Israel went up after Saul in Gilgal.
And Abner said to Joab, Let now the young men arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.
And David said to Michal, I will dance before the Lord. Blessed be the Lord who chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to make me head over his people, even over Israel: therefore I will play, and dance before the Lord.
And behold the whole family rose up against thy handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that smote his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.
And King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, in his war with Hazael king of Syria. And Jehu said, If your heart is with me, let there not go forth out of the city one fugitive to go and report to Jezreel.
And David and all Israel were playing before the Lord with all their might, and that together with singers, and with harps, and with lutes, with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
And the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived, and came to the city of David; and Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window, and saw King David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? and has thy soul departed from Zion? wherefore hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!
I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.
All thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not ask about thee at all, for I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, even severe correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine iniquity.
And there shall go forth from them singers, even the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished.
For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.
And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
And all their brethren played, and he made them go up together with them.
Do not think to corrupt with gifts: for such he will not receive: And trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; For the Lord is judge, And with him is no respect of persons.
He played with lions as with kids, And with bears as with lambs.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3815, grouped by book.
Paizo (Strong's G3815) is a Greek word most simply glossed "play". paizo (paid'-zo) v. 1. to play as a child, to sport 2. to amuse oneself as a child
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's G3815 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3815 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as play. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 21 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3815, with linked reader references where each row is available.