Lexicon thigganó: to touch Original Word: θιγγάνωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: thigganó Phonetic Spelling: (thing-gan'-o) Short Definition: I touch, handle Definition: I touch, handle, injure, harm. HELPS word-Studies 2345 thiggánō – manipulatively touch; "handle," especially "to do violence, injure" (J. Thayer). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a prim. root thig- Definitionto touch NASB Translationtouch (2), touches (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2345: θιγγάνωθιγγάνω (probably akin to τεῖχος, fingo, fiction, etc.; Curtius, § 145): 2 aorist ἔθιγον; to touch, handle: μηδέ θίγῃς touch not namely, impure things, Colossians 2:21 (cf. ἅπτω, 2 c.); τίνος, Hebrews 12:20 (( Aeschylus), Xenophon, Plato, Tragg., others); like the Hebrew נָגַע , to do violence to, injure: τίνος, Hebrews 11:28 ( Euripides, Iph. Aul. 1351; ὧν αἱ βλαβαι αὗται θιγγανουσι, Act. Thom. § 12). (Synonym: see ἅπτω, 2 c.)
Strong's handle, touch. A prolonged form of an obsolete primary thigo (to finger); to manipulate, i.e. Have to do with; by implication, to injure -- handle, touch. |
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