Original Word: δάκνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: daknó
Phonetic Spelling: (dak'-no)
Definition: to bite
Usage: I bite; hence: I backbite, harm seriously.Word Origin
from a prim. root dak-
Definition
to bite
NASB Translation
bite (1).

STRONGS NT 1143: δάκνω

δάκνω; to bite;

a. properly, with the teeth.

b. metaphorically, to wound the soul, cut, lacerate, rend with reproaches: Galatians 5:15. So even in Homer, Iliad 5, 493 μῦθος δακε φρενας, Menander quoted in Athen. 12, 77, p. 552 e., and times without number in other authors.

bite.

A prolonged form of a primary root; to bite, i.e. (figuratively) thwart -- bite.

δάκη δακνετε δάκνετε δάκνοντας δάκνοντες δάκνων δεδηγμένος δήξεται δήξονται έδακνεν έδακνον daknete dákneteInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts