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Greek

5089. tillo -- to pluck, to pluck off
... to pluck, to pluck off. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tillo Phonetic Spelling:
(til'-lo) Short Definition: I pluck, pluck off Definition: I pluck, pluck ...
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1807. exaireo -- to take out, to deliver
... Word Origin from ek and haireo Definition to take out, to deliver NASB Word Usage
pluck (1), rescue (2), rescued (3), rescuing (1), tear (1). ...
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1610. ekrizoo -- to uproot
... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekrizoo Phonetic Spelling: (ek-rid-zo'-o)
Short Definition: I root out, root up Definition: I root out, pluck up by the ...
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1846. exorusso -- to dig out or up
... extract, pluck out. From ek and orusso; to dig out, ie (by extension) to extract
(an eye), remove (roofing) -- break up, pluck out. see GREEK ek. ...
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1407. drepanon -- a sickle, a pruning hook
... Word Origin from drepo (to pluck) Definition a sickle, a pruning hook NASB
Word Usage sickle (8). sickle. From drepo (to pluck); a ...
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1288. diaspao -- to draw apart, tear asunder
... pluck asunder, tear apart. From dia and spao; to draw apart, ie Sever or dismember --
pluck asunder, pull in pieces. see GREEK dia. see GREEK spao. ...
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1544. ekballo -- to go out
... From ek and ballo; to eject (literally or figuratively) -- bring forth, cast (forth,
out), drive (out), expel, leave, pluck (pull, take, thrust) out, put forth ...
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5567. psallo -- to pull, twitch, twang, play, sing
... stringed instrument. 5567 -- properly, pluck a musical instrument (like a
harp); used of " with instruments"; "to ," or simply . Word ...
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726. harpazo -- to seize, catch up, snatch away
... catch, seize, take by force. From a derivative of haireomai; to seize (in various
applications) -- catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6998. qataph -- to pluck off or out
... 6997, 6998. qataph. 6999 . to pluck off or out. Transliteration: qataph Phonetic
Spelling: (kaw-taf') Short Definition: pluck. Word Origin a prim. ...
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5428. nathash -- to pull or pluck up, root out
... nathash. 5429 . to pull or pluck up, root out. Transliteration: nathash Phonetic
Spelling: (naw-thash') Short Definition: uproot. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6131. aqar -- to pluck or root up
... 6130, 6131. aqar. 6132 . to pluck or root up. Transliteration: aqar Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-kar') Short Definition: uproot. ... dig down, pluck up, root up. ...
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717. arah -- to gather, pluck
... 716, 717. arah. 718 . to gather, pluck. Transliteration: arah Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-raw') Short Definition: gathered. Word Origin a prim. ... gather, pluck. ...
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2963. taraph -- to tear, rend, pluck
... 2962, 2963. taraph. 2964 . to tear, rend, pluck. Transliteration: taraph Phonetic
Spelling: (taw-raf') Short Definition: tear. Word Origin a prim. ...
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4804. merat -- to pluck
... 4803, 4804. merat. 4805 . to pluck. Transliteration: merat Phonetic Spelling:
(mer-at') Short Definition: plucked. Word Origin (Aramaic ...
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1497. gazal -- to tear away, seize, rob
... catch, consume, exercise robbery, pluck off, rob, spoil, take away by force,
violence,. A primitive root; to pluck off; specifically ...
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4803. marat -- to make smooth, bare or bald, to scour, polish
... root Definition to make smooth, bare or bald, to scour, polish NASB Word Usage becomes
bald (1), loses the hair (1), pluck out the beard (1), polished (6 ...
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8025. shalaph -- to draw out or off
... draw off, grow up, pluck off. A primitive root; to pull out, up or off -- draw
(off), grow up, pluck off. 8024, 8025. shalaph. 8026 . Strong's Numbers.
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6132. aqar -- to be rooted up
... pluck up by the roots. (Aramaic) corresponding to aqar -- pluck up by the roots.
see HEBREW aqar. 6131, 6132. aqar. 6133 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Jesus Defends Disciples who Pluck Grain on the Sabbath.
... Part Fifth. From Second Passover Until Third.(Time: One Year.) XXXVIII.
Jesus Defends Disciples Who Pluck Grain on the Sabbath. ...
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There Remains the Pleasure of These Eyes of My Flesh...
... of the eyes I resist, lest my feet wherewith I walk upon Thy way be ensnared; and
I lift up mine invisible eyes to Thee, that Thou wouldest pluck my feet out ...
/.../the confessions of saint augustine/chapter xxxiv there remains the.htm

Of the Very Dangerous Allurements of the Eyes; on Account of ...
... of the eyes, lest my feet with which I advance on Thy way be entangled; and I raise
my invisible eyes to Thee, that Thou wouldst be pleased to "pluck my feet ...
/.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter xxxiv of the very dangerous.htm

Description of the Symbol of the Hands among the Manichæans.
... As for your not plucking fruits or pulling up vegetables yourselves, while you get
your followers to pluck and pull and bring them to you, that you may confer ...
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Against Men who Embellish Themselves.
... For their service the towns are full of those who take out hair by pitch-plasters,
shave, and pluck out hairs from these womanish creatures. ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter iii against men who embellish.htm

Melanchthon -- the Safety of the virtuous
... Luther. MELANCHTHON 1497"1560. THE SAFETY OF THE VIRTUOUS. Neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand."John x, 28. To Thee ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume i/melanchthon the safety of.htm

John x. 22-24
... Ver.27-30. "For My sheep hear My voice, [1643] and follow Me; and I give unto them
eternal life [1644] ; neither can [1645] any man pluck them out of My hand. ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily lxi john x 22-24.htm

Chapter xiii.
... 37. In the next place, He goes on to say: "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck
it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/chapter xiii.htm

Irresistible Logic.
... A prize was offered once for the best definition of "pluck." The definition that
won the prize said, "Pluck is fighting with the scabbard after the sword is ...
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His Statement of the Proof of his Messiahship. --His Oneness With
... 604] hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I grant unto them eternal
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out ...
/.../section 223 his statement of.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To pull; to draw.

2. (v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.

3. (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

4. (v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.

5. (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

6. (n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

7. (n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

8. (n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

9. (n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

10. (n.) The lyrie.

Thesaurus

Pluck (41 Occurrences)
... to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with
a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl ...
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Pick (37 Occurrences)
... 5. (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather,
as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc. ...
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Pull (32 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull
fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. ... (n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered. ...
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Overthrow (48 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 1:10 behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build ...
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Causeth (209 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast
it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should ...
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Snatch (14 Occurrences)
... RSV NIV). Job 24:9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast,
and take a pledge of the poor, (See NAS RSV NIV). Job 24 ...
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Plucking (8 Occurrences)
... (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluck. Int. ... (YLT). Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not hear,
then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh. ...
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Hell (53 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee:
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and ...
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Tear (97 Occurrences)
... Psalms 52:5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck
you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. ...
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Gouge (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Gouge (4 Occurrences). Matthew 5:29 If your right eye
causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. ...
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Bible Concordance

Pluck (41 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Matthew 12:1 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Matthew 18:9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Mark 2:23 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Mark 9:47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
(KJV WBS RSV NIV)

John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
(KJV WBS YLT)

John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Leviticus 1:16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
(KJV WBS)

Numbers 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
(KJV)

Deuteronomy 23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 29:28 and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land, as 'at' this day.
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 7:20 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Ezra 9:3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Nehemiah 13:25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Job 24:9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Job 30:4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS)

Psalms 25:15 My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Psalms 31:4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
(WEB ASV)

Psalms 52:5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Psalms 74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Psalms 80:8 Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
(See JPS)

Psalms 80:12 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Proverbs 15:25 Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
(See JPS DBY)

Ecclesiastes 3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Isaiah 23:16 Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Jeremiah 1:10 behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 12:14 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 22:24 As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Jeremiah 24:6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Jeremiah 31:28 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 42:10 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 45:4 You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Ezekiel 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS)

Ezekiel 17:22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain:
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Hosea 2:9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
(WEB ASV)

Micah 3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Micah 5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Pluck

Related Terms

Pick (37 Occurrences)

Pull (32 Occurrences)

Overthrow (48 Occurrences)

Causeth (209 Occurrences)

Snatch (14 Occurrences)

Plucking (8 Occurrences)

Hell (53 Occurrences)