διαρπάζω
to plunder
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G1283 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Mark. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, διαρπαζω (diarpázō) means “to plunder.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to Matthew (50%), then Mark. First canonically at Matthew 12:29, it enters the text early. It shares a root with δια, διαβαινω and διαβαλλω. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1283 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: He will spoil 2×, Spoil 2×
- American Standard Version: He will spoil 2×, Spoil 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: He can plunder 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He will plunder 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1283 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1283 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1283 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1283 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to plunder
Word origin
Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1283 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διαρπάσαι diarpásai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Mark 3:27 | 1 |
| διαρπάσει diarpásei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 3:27 | 1 |
| διαρπάσῃ diarpásē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 12:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1283, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- διαβαινω diabaínō G1224 to pass through
- διαβαλλω diabállō G1225 to slander
- διαβεβαιοομαι diabebaióomai G1226 to affirm strongly
- διαβλεπω diablépō G1227 to look through
- διαγγελλω diangéllō G1229 to proclaim
- διαγινομαι diagínomai G1230 to continue
- διαγινωσκω diaginṓskō G1231 to ascertain
- διαγογγυζω diagongýzō G1234 to murmur
- διαγρηγορεω diagrēgoréō G1235 to watch through
- διαγω diágō G1236 to lead through
- διαδεχομαι diadéchomai G1237 to receive in succession
- διαδημα diádēma G1238 diadem
- διαδιδωμι diadídōmi G1239 to distribute
- διαζωννυμι diazṓnnymi G1241 to gird around
- διαιρεω diairéō G1244 to divide
- διακαθαριζω diakatharízō G1245 to cleanse thoroughly
- διακατελεγχομαι diakatelénchomai G1246 to confute
- διακουομαι diakoúomai G1251 to hear fully
- διακρινω diakrínō G1252 to distinguish
- διακωλυω diakōlýō G1254 to hinder
- διαλαλεω dialaléō G1255 to converse
- διαλεγομαι dialégomai G1256 to discuss
- διαλειπω dialeípō G1257 to intermit
- διαλλασσω diallássō G1259 to reconcile
+62 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 88 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διαρπαζω appears 31 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 29 verses in 15 books.
- 31
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 29
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 34:27 διαἁρπάζω
- Deuteronomy 28:29 διαἁρπάζω
- Judges 9:25 διαἁρπάζω
- 1 Samuel 14:36 διαἁρπάζω
- 2 Kings 7:16 διαἁρπάζω
- Esther 3:13 διαἁρπάζω
- Psalms 34:10 διαἁρπάζω
- Isaiah 5:17 διαἁρπάζω
- Jeremiah 21:12 διαἁρπάζω
- Ezekiel 7:21 διαἁρπάζω
- Amos 3:11 διαἁρπάζω
- Micah 2:2 διαἁρπάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1283) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 34:27 διαἁρπάζω Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
- Genesis 34:29 διαἁρπάζω and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
- Deuteronomy 28:29 διαἁρπάζω and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
- Judges 9:25 διαἁρπάζω The men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
- 1 Samuel 14:36 διαἁρπάζω Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.
- 1 Samuel 23:1 διαἁρπάζω They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.
- 2 Kings 7:16 διαἁρπάζω The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 17:20 διαἁρπάζω Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
- Esther 3:13 διαἁρπάζω Letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
- Esther 9:10 διαἁρπάζω the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, killed they; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
- Esther 9:15 διαἁρπάζω The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
- Esther 9:16 διαἁρπάζω The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed of those who hated them seventy-five thousand; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
- Psalms 34:10 διαἁρπάζω The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, But those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
- Psalms 43:11 διαἁρπάζω
- Psalms 88:42 διαἁρπάζω
- Psalms 108:11 διαἁρπάζω Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies.
- Isaiah 5:17 διαἁρπάζω Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
- Isaiah 42:22 διαἁρπάζω But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
- Jeremiah 21:12 διαἁρπάζω House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Jeremiah 22:3 διαἁρπάζω Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
- Jeremiah 27:11 διαἁρπάζω But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 7:21 διαἁρπάζω I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
- Ezekiel 22:29 διαἁρπάζω The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
- Amos 3:11 διαἁρπάζω Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; And he will pull down your strongholds, And your fortresses will be plundered."
- Micah 2:2 διαἁρπάζω They covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.
- Nahum 2:10 διαἁρπάζω She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
- Zephaniah 2:4 διαἁρπάζω For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
- Zephaniah 2:9 διαἁρπάζω Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Zechariah 14:2 διαἁρπάζω For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1283) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
