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ῥίπτω

to cast

‘to cast’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓

G4496 Strong's Greek
rhíptō Transliteration
/hrip'-to/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 7 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, ριπτω (rhíptō) means “to cast.” Catalogued under 5 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Spanning 7 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (43% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 9:36. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
cast
Modern gloss
to cast
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G4496 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 →

7
distinct verses
The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
3 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 9:36
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 9:36.
Acts 27:29
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Acts 27:29.
#1,358
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 5 · 71%
  • Acts 2 · 29%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 7 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 5 verses · 71%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 57%

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: Cast 1×, Day we cast out 1×, Down 1×
  • American Standard Version: Day they cast out 1×, Down 1×, Ground 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Be thrown 1×, Helpless 1×, Laid 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having thrown 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4496 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Cast” 1×
  • “Day we cast out” 1×
  • “Down” 1×
  • “Had thrown” 1×
  • “He cast” 1×
  • “He cast down” 1×
  • “They cast” 1×
  • “Were scattered abroad” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4496 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Day they cast out” 1×
  • “Down” 1×
  • “Ground” 1×
  • “Had thrown” 1×
  • “He cast down” 1×
  • “He were thrown” 1×
  • “They cast” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4496 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Be thrown” 1×
  • “Helpless” 1×
  • “Laid” 1×
  • “They dropped” 1×
  • “They threw” 1×
  • “Threw” 1×
  • “Threw down” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4496 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having thrown” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 5 senses 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.

  1. to cast, throw
  2. throw down
  3. to cast forward or before
  4. to set down (with the suggestion of haste and want of care)
  5. to throw to the ground, prostrate

Word origin

Derived from ραπιζω (rhapízō) (G4474) — to strike.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 22:32,0

A primary verb (perhaps rather akin to the base of G4474 through the idea of sudden motion ); to fling (properly with a quick toss thus differing from G906 which denotes a deliberate hurl; and from τείνω teinō (see in G1614 ) which indicates an extended projection); by qualification to deposit (as if a load); by extension to disperse : - cast (down out) scatter abroad throw.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 6 distinct written forms G4496 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἔριψαν éripsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 15:30 2
ἐρριμμένοι errimménoi Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 9:36 1
ἔρριπται érriptai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 17:2 1
ῥίψαν rhípsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Luke 4:35 1
ῥίψαντες rhípsantes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 27:29 1
ῥίψας rhípsas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 27:5 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4496, 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

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ριπτω appears 78 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 76 verses in 18 books.

78
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
76
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
18 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4496) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 76. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4496) 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.

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