Greek verb · G2345
θιγγάνω
thinganothing-gan'-o
to touch, handle; to injure
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: thingánō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2345is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2345
to manipulate, i.e. have to do with; by implication, to injure
The King James renders it: handle, touch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
thingano is rendered "to touch, handle; to injure". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to touch, handle".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Colossians 2:21“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
Colossians 2:21θίγῃς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to touch, handle, and to injure.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to touch, handleCol.2:21 | Tagged as
| WhereColossians 2:21“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”? |
| to injure | Tagged as
| WhereHebrews 11:28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- θίγῃ2
- θίγῃς1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-2AAS-3S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-2AAS-2S
Colossians
one use
“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
- θίγῃςthigesverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may touch
Hebrews
two uses
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
- θίγῃthigeverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may touch
For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”
- θίγῃthigeverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall touch
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.