Definition

to strike with a stick, i.e. bastinado

Etymology

from G4464 (ῥάβδος);

Word family

• ῥάβδος rhábdos

How the KJV renders it

• beat (with rods)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.