STRONGS G4141:
πλήσσω (cf.
πληγή (
πέλαγος), Latin
plango, plaga;
Curtius, § 367): 2 aorist passive
ἐπλήγην; from
Homer down; the
Sept. for
הִכָּה (see
πατάσσω, at the beginning);
to strike, to smite: passive (of the heavenly bodies smitten by God that they may be deprived of light and shrouded in darkness),
Revelation 8:12. (Compare:
ἐκπλήσσω,
ἐπιπλήσσω.)
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