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ἅπτω

haptōto touchHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentVerb35 occurrences8 books33 verses

Definition

to touch, hold, handle; (act.) to start a fire; "to touch a woman" means "to get married"

primarily to bring in contact, fit, fasten; to light, kindle, Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16; to touch, Matthew 8:3; to meddle, venture to partake, Colossians 2:21; to have intercourse with, to know carnally, 1 Corinthians 7:1; by implication to harm, 1 John 5:18

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

35 total
  1. Matthew 8:3ἥψατο · [and] touched
    Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
  2. Matthew 8:15ἥψατο · He touched
    So He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve Him.
  3. Matthew 9:20ἥψατο · [and] touched
    Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
  4. Matthew 9:21ἅψωμαι · I touch
    She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”
  5. Matthew 9:29ἥψατο · He touched
    Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
  6. Matthew 14:36ἅψωνται · let them touch; ἥψαντο · touched [Him]
    …and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
  7. Matthew 17:7ἁψάμενος · touched
    Then Jesus came over and touched them. “Get up,” He said. “Do not be afraid.”
  8. Matthew 20:34ἥψατο · touched
    Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once they received their sight and followed Him.
  9. Mark 1:41ἥψατο · [and] touched [the man]
    Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”
  10. Mark 3:10ἅψωνται · touch
    For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
  11. Mark 5:27ἥψατο · [and] touched
    When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.
  12. Mark 5:28ἅψωμαι · I touch
    For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”
  13. Mark 5:30ἥψατο · touched
    At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
  14. Mark 5:31ἥψατο · touched
    His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”
  15. Mark 6:56ἅψωνται · to let them touch; ἥψαντο · touched
    And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
  16. Mark 7:33ἥψατο · [and] touched
    So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.
  17. Mark 8:22ἅψηται · touch
    When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
  18. Mark 10:13ἅψηται · Him to place His hands
    Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
  19. Luke 5:13ἥψατο · [and] touched
    Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
  20. Luke 6:19ἅπτεσθαι · to touch
    The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
  21. Luke 7:14ἥψατο · [and] touched
    Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”
  22. Luke 7:39ἅπτεται · is touching
    When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”
  23. Luke 8:44ἥψατο · [and] touched
    She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
  24. Luke 8:45ἁψάμενός · touched
    “Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”
  25. Luke 8:46Ἥψατό · touched
    But Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”
  26. Luke 8:47ἥψατο · she had touched
    Then the woman, seeing that she could not escape notice, came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched Him and how she had immediately been healed.
  27. Luke 18:15ἅπτηται · Him to place His hands
    Now people were even bringing their babies to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them. And when the disciples saw this, they rebuked those who brought them.
  28. Luke 22:51ἁψάμενος · [He] touched
    But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
  29. John 20:17ἅπτου · cling to
    “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
  30. 1 Corinthians 7:1ἅπτεσθαι · to abstain from sexual relations
    Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
  31. 2 Corinthians 6:17ἅπτεσθε · Touch
    “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
  32. Colossians 2:21ἅψῃ · not handle
    “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
  33. 1 John 5:18ἅπτεται · cannot touch
    We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.