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Strong's G726 ἁρπάζω (harpazo)

Harpazo means “pluck” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H726 — aromi (“Syrian”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G726
Language Greek
Linked Usages 52
Books 26

Strong's G726 Quick Answer

Strong's G726 ἁρπάζω (harpazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. harpazo (har-pad'-zo) v. 1. to seize {in various applications} It has 52 linked Bible usages across 26 books. Visible English usage signals include take, catcheth, pluck, away, and pulled. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
harpazo (har-pad'-zo) v. 1. to seize {in various applications}
Usage
52 linked usages
Books
26 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
take, catcheth, pluck, away, and pulled

Meaning and Definition

harpazo (har-pad'-zo) v. 1. to seize {in various applications} [from a derivative of G138] KJV: catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force) Root(s): G138

Original Word
ἁρπάζω
Transliteration
harpazo
Derivation
Root: αἱρέομαι R1: 138
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G726. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to seize

Usage: ἁρπάζω [in LXX chiefly for גָּזַל, טָרַף ;] to seize, catch up, snatch away, carry off by force: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.12:29 13:19, Jhn.10:12, 28-29; τ. βασιλείαν τ. θεοῦ, Mat.11:12; with accusative of person(s), Jhn.6:15, Act.8:39 23:10, Ju 23; pass., before ἕως, 2Co.12:2; εἰς, 2Co.12:4, 1Th.4:17; πρός, Rev.12:5 (cf. δι-, συν-αρπάζω, and see MM, see word).† (AS)

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How Strong's G726 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render harpazo, 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.

catcheth Matthew 13:19 pluck John 10:28 take Matthew 11:12 away Acts 8:39 pulled Acts 23:10 pulling Jude 1:23

How Strong's G726 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 33 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G726 (ἁρπάζω) appears 40 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G726 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G726 in the New Testament

13 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 11:12 KJV

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

Matthew 13:19 KJV

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

John 6:15 KJV

When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

Strong's G726 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

33 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 37:33 Septuagint / Brenton

And he recognized it, and said, It is my son’s coat, an evil wild beast has devoured him; a wild beast has carried off Joseph.

Leviticus 5:23 Septuagint / Brenton

it shall come to pass, whensoever he shall have sinned, and transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder which he has seized, or redress the injury which he has committed, or restore the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost article which he has found

Leviticus 19:13 Septuagint / Brenton

Thou shalt not injure thy neighbor, neither do thou rob him, neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.

Strong's G726 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 4:24 Septuagint / Brenton

and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.

Judith 16:9 Septuagint / Brenton

Her sandals ravished his eyes, Her beauty took his mind prisoner, And the falchion passed through his neck.

Tobit 1:20 Septuagint / Brenton

Then all my goods were forcibly taken away, neither was there anything left me, beside my wife Anna and my son Tobias.

Strong's G726 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 102:9 Septuagint / Brenton

I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and

Usage Excerpts

First 52 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G726.

Genesis 37:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he recognized it, and said, It is my son’s coat, an evil wild beast has devoured him; a wild beast has carried off Joseph.
Leviticus 5:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
it shall come to pass, whensoever he shall have sinned, and transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder which he has seized, or redress the injury which he has committed, or restore the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost article which he has found
Leviticus 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not injure thy neighbor, neither do thou rob him, neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.
Deuteronomy 28:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy calf shall be slain before thee, and thou shalt not eat of it; thine ass shall be violently taken away from thee, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have no helper.
Judges 21:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and ye shall see; and lo! if there come out the daughters of the inhabitants of Shiloh to dance in dances, then shall ye go out of the vineyards and seize for yourselves every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go ye into the land of Benjamin.
Judges 21:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Benjamin did so; and they took wives according to their number from the dancers whom they seized: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.
2 Kingdoms 23:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man, and in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear as the side of a ladder; and he went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
Job 20:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: And he has plundered a habitation, though he built it not.
Job 24:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
While the ungodly have passed over the bound, Carrying off the flock with the shepherd?
Job 24:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, And have afflicted the outcast.
Job 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let them be withered upon the earth; For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
Psalms 7:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, While there is none to ransom, nor to save.
Psalms 9:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: He lies in wait to ravish the poor, To ravish the poor when he draws him after him: He will bring him down in his snare.
Psalms 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have opened their mouth against me, As a ravening and roaring lion.
Psalms 49:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now consider these things, ye that forget God, Lest he rend you, and there be no deliverer.
Psalms 68:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: My enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: Then I restored that which I took not away.
Psalms 103:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Even young lions roaring for prey, And to seek meat for themselves from God.
Isaiah 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.
Ezekiel 18:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;
Ezekiel 18:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,
Ezekiel 18:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,
Ezekiel 18:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.
Ezekiel 19:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
Ezekiel 22:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and thy widows are multiplied in the midst of thee.
Ezekiel 22:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.
Hosea 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Judah: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.
Hosea 6:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will smite, and bind us up.
Amos 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.
Amos 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion’s whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?
Micah 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:
Micah 5:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion’s whelp among flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.
Nahum 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling place with spoil.
Matthew 11:12 New Testament, KJV
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 13:19 New Testament, KJV
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
John 6:15 New Testament, KJV
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
John 10:12 New Testament, KJV
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
John 10:28 New Testament, KJV
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:29 New Testament, KJV
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Acts 8:39 New Testament, KJV
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 23:10 New Testament, KJV
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
2 Corinthians 12:2 New Testament, KJV
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
2 Corinthians 12:4 New Testament, KJV
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 New Testament, KJV
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Jude 1:23 New Testament, KJV
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Revelation 12:5 New Testament, KJV
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
1 Esdras 4:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.
Judith 16:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Her sandals ravished his eyes, Her beauty took his mind prisoner, And the falchion passed through his neck.
Tobit 1:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then all my goods were forcibly taken away, neither was there anything left me, beside my wife Anna and my son Tobias.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, Or deceit beguile his soul.
Baruch 4:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.
1 Enoch 102:9 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G726, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
John 4 usages, New Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
Jude 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G726 FAQ

What does harpazo (ἁρπάζω) mean?

Harpazo (Strong's G726) is a Greek word most simply glossed "pluck". harpazo (har-pad'-zo) v. 1. to seize {in various applications}

How many times is harpazo (ἁρπάζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 52 linked usages for Strong's G726 across 26 books.

Where can I study harpazo (ἁρπάζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G726 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate harpazo (ἁρπάζω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as take, catcheth, pluck, away, pulled, and pulling. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G726 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 33 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G726, with linked reader references where each row is available.