Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to strike
Usage: παίω [in LXX chiefly for נָכָה hi. ;] to strike, smite: with the hand or fist, Mat.26:68, Luk.22:64; with a sword, Mrk.14:47, Jhn.18:10; of a reptile, to sting: Rev.9:5.† (AS)
Paio means “smite” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3817 — leummim in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3817 παίω (paio) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paio (pai'-o) v. 1. to hit (as if by a single blow) 2. (specially) to sting (as a scorpion) It has 24 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include scorpion. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
paio (pai'-o) v. 1. to hit (as if by a single blow) 2. (specially) to sting (as a scorpion) {less violently than G5180} [a primary verb] KJV: smite, strike Compare: G5180, G3960, G4474
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to strike
Usage: παίω [in LXX chiefly for נָכָה hi. ;] to strike, smite: with the hand or fist, Mat.26:68, Luk.22:64; with a sword, Mrk.14:47, Jhn.18:10; of a reptile, to sting: Rev.9:5.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paio, 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 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 G3817 (παίω) appears 19 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.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the blood shall be for a sign to you on the houses in which ye are, and I will see the blood, and will protect you, and there shall not be on you the plague of destruction, when I smite in the land of Egypt.
And God opened the mouth of the ass, and she says to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me this third time?
These were the cities selected for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger abiding among them, that every one who smites a soul unintentionally should flee thither, that he should not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he should stand before the congregation for judgment.
First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3817.
And the blood shall be for a sign to you on the houses in which ye are, and I will see the blood, and will protect you, and there shall not be on you the plague of destruction, when I smite in the land of Egypt.
And God opened the mouth of the ass, and she says to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me this third time?
These were the cities selected for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger abiding among them, that every one who smites a soul unintentionally should flee thither, that he should not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he should stand before the congregation for judgment.
And David said, As the Lord lives, if the Lord smite him not, or his day come and he die, or he go down to battle and be added to his fathers, do not so.
And the Lord was very angry with Uzzah; and God smote him there: and he died there by the ark of the Lord before God.
And moreover thy handmaid had two sons, and they fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them; and the one smote the other his brother, and slew him.
And Amasa observed not the dagger that was in the hand of Joab: and Joab smote him with it on the loins, and his bowels were shed out upon the ground, and he did not repeat the blow, and he died: and Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
And the people heard in the army, saying, Zimri has conspired and smitten the king: and the people of Israel made Omri the captain of the host king in that day in the camp over Israel.
And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away from his land.
So the devil went out from the Lord, And smote Job with sore boils from his feet to his head.
But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, Of whom we also are formed of the same clay, He smites them like a moth.
For he causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: He smites, and his hands heal.
Thy hands have formed me and made me; Afterward thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.
He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; With his sharp spear he has smitten me down upon my knees; And they have run upon me with one accord.
Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.
Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young of asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents.
Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.
He will give his cheek to him that smites him: He will be filled full with reproaches.
And I saw him coming up close to the ram, and he was furiously enraged against him, and he smote the ram, and broke both his horns: and there was no strength in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him on the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3817, grouped by book.
Paio (Strong's G3817) is a Greek word most simply glossed "smite". paio (pai'-o) v. 1. to hit (as if by a single blow) 2. (specially) to sting (as a scorpion)
This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's G3817 across 17 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3817 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as scorpion. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3817, with linked reader references where each row is available.