Original Word: ἁρπαγμός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: harpagmos
Phonetic Spelling: (har-pag-mos')
Definition: the act of seizing or the thing seized
Usage: spoil, an object of eager desire, a prize.

Cognate: 725 harpagmós – to seize, especially by an open display of force. See 726 (harpazō).

Word Origin
from harpazó
Definition
the act of seizing or the thing seized
NASB Translation
thing to be grasped (1).

STRONGS NT 725: ἁρπαγμός

ἁρπαγμός, ἁρπαγμου, ὁ (ἁρπάζω);

1. the act of seizing, robbery (so Plutarch, de book educ. c. 15 (others 14, 37), vol. 2:12 a. the only instance of its use noted in secular authors).

2. a thing seized or to be seized, booty: ἁρπαγμόν ἡγεῖσθαι τί to deem anything a prlze — a thing to be seized upon or to be held fast, retained, Philippians 2:6; on the meaning of this passage see μορφή; (ἡγεῖσθαι or ποιεῖσθαι τί ἅρπαγμα, Eusebius, h. e. 8, 12, 2; vit. Const. 2, 31; (commentaries in Luc. vi., cf. Mai, Nov. Biblical Patr. iv., p. 165); Heliodorus 7, 11 and 20; 8, 7; (Plutarch, de Alex. virt. 1, 8, p. 330d.);utomniumbonapraedamtuamduceres, Cicero, Verr. 2:5, 15, 39; (see Lightfoot on Phil., p. 133f (cf. p. 111); Wetstein at the passage; Cremer, 4te Aufl., p. 153f)).

plunder

From harpazo; plunder (properly concrete) -- robbery.

see GREEK harpazo

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