Definition

a slap

Etymology

from G4474 (ῥαπίζω);

Word family

• ῥαπίζω rhapízō

How the KJV renders it

• (+ strike with the) palm of the hand
• smite with the hand

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.