Greek verb · G681
ἅπτω
haptohap'-to
to touch
39 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: háptō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G681is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G681
properly, to fasten to, i.e. (specially) to set on fire
The King James renders it: kindle, light.
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
hapto is rendered "to touch". It stands 39 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:3Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matthew 8:3ἥψατο
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirteen of the word's thirty-nine uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- He touched6
- touched6
- she touched4
- having touched3
- He may touch3
- I shall touch2
- they may touch2
- to touch2
- do touch1
- do yourself touch1
- does touch1
- Having kindled1
and 7 more, 39 uses in all
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 39, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- ἥψατο14
- ἅψωνται3
- ἅπτεσθαι2
- ἅπτεται2
- ἁψάμενος2
- ἅψας2
- ἅψηται2
- ἅψωμαι2
- ἥψαντο2
- ἅπτει1
- ἅπτεσθε1
- ἅπτηται1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular15V-ADI-3S
- verb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3V-AMP-NSM
- verb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person plural3V-AMS-3P
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-ADI-3P
- verb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 1st person singular2V-AMS-1S
- verb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-AMS-3S
- verb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-PMI-3S
- verb · present middle, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PMN
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-AAP-NPM
- verb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-AMS-2S
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
Matthew
nine uses
Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He touched
So He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve Him.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He touched
Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she touched
She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”
- ἅψωμαιhapsomaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I shall touch
Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He touched
and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- ἅψωνταιhapsontaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may touch
- ἥψαντοhepsantoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: touched
Then Jesus came over and touched them. “Get up,” He said. “Do not be afraid.”
- ἁψάμενοςhapsamenosverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having touched
Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once they received their sight and followed Him.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: touched
Mark
eleven uses
Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He touched him
For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.
- ἅψωνταιhapsontaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may touch
When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she touched
For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”
- ἅψωμαιhapsomaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I shall touch
At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: touched
His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: 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.
- ἅψωνταιhapsontaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they shall touch
- ἥψαντοhepsantoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: 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.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He touched
When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
- ἅψηταιhapsetaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may touch
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.
- ἅψηταιhapsetaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may touch
Luke
thirteen uses
Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He touched
The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.
- ἅπτεσθαιhaptesthaiverb · present middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to touch
Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He touched
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!”
- ἅπτεταιhaptetaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: touches
No one lights a lamp and covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.
- ἅψαςhapsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having lighted
She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she touched
“Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”
- ἁψάμενόςhapsamenosverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having touched
But Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”
- ἥψατόhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: 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.
- ἥψατοhepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she touched
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.
- ἅψαςhapsasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having lit
Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
- ἅπτειhapteiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she lights
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.
- ἅπτηταιhaptetaiverb · present middle, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may touch
But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
- ἁψάμενοςhapsamenosverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having touched
John
one use
“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.’”
- ἅπτουhaptouverb · present middle, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do yourself touch
Acts
one use
The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
- ἅψαντεςhapsantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Having kindled
1 Corinthians
one use
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
- ἅπτεσθαιhaptesthaiverb · present middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to touch
2 Corinthians
one use
“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- ἅπτεσθεhaptestheverb · present middle, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do touch
Colossians
one use
“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
- ἅψῃhapseverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may handle
1 John
one use
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.
- ἅπτεταιhaptetaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: does 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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.