STRONGS G4475:
ῤάπισμα,
ῥαπισματος,
τό (
ῤαπίζω, which see);
1. a blow with a rod or a staff or a scourge (
Antiphanes in
Athen. 14, p. 623 b.;
Anthol.,
Lucian).
2. a blow with the flat of the hand, a slap in the face, box on the car:
βάλλειν τινα ῤαπίσμασιν (see
βάλλω, 1),
Mark 14:65;
διδόναι τίνι ῤάπισμα,
John 18:22;
ῤαπίσματα,
John 19:3 (but in all three examples
R. V. marginal reading recognizes sense 1 (see references under the word
ῤαπίζω)).
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