Piazo means “squeeze” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4084 — midyani in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4084 πιάζω (piazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. piazo (pee-ad'-zo) v. 1. to squeeze, i.e. seize (gently by the hand (press), or officially (arrest), or in hunting (capture)) [probably another form of G971] It has 13 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include hands and hand. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
piazo (pee-ad'-zo) v. 1. to squeeze, i.e. seize (gently by the hand (press), or officially (arrest), or in hunting (capture)) [probably another form of G971] KJV: apprehend, catch, lay hand on, take Root(s): G971 Compare: G4085
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to arrest/catch
Usage: πιάζω (cf. MGr. πιάνω; see Kennedy, Sources, 155), Doric and late Att.. for πιέζω in its later senses [in LXX: Sng.2:15 (אָחַז), Sir.23:21 * ;] __1. to lay hold of: Act.3:7 (Theocr.). __2. to take, capture, apprehend: Jhn.7:30, 32 7:44 8:20 10:39 11:57 21:3, 10 Act.12:4, 2Co.11:32, Rev.19:20 (see MM, xx).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render piazo, 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.
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Strong's G4084 (πιάζω) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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12 indexed usages in New Testament.
Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: For our vines put forth tender grapes.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4084.
Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: For our vines put forth tender grapes.
Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
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.
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
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.
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 caught nothing.
Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
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 to the people.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
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, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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Piazo (Strong's G4084) is a Greek word most simply glossed "squeeze". piazo (pee-ad'-zo) v. 1. to squeeze, i.e. seize (gently by the hand (press), or officially (arrest), or in hunting (capture)) [probably another form of G971]
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G4084 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4084 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hands and hand. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G4084, with linked reader references where each row is available.