to beat with the fist, buffet, Mt. 26:67; Mk. 14:65; met. to maltreat, treat with excessive force, 1 Cor. 4:11; to punish, 1 Pet. 2:20; to buffet, fret, afflict, 2 Cor. 12:7*

chastisement, punishment, Mt. 25:46; painful disquietude, torment, 1 Jn. 4:18*

flattery, adulation, obsequiousness, 1 Thess. 2:5*

pr. to curtail, to coerce; to chastise, punish, Acts 4:21; 2 Pet. 2:9*

a kernel, grain, seed, Mt. 13:31; 17:20; Mk. 4:31; Lk. 13:19; 17:6; Jn. 12:24; 1 Cor. 15:37*

dyed with coccus, crimson, scarlet, Mt. 27:28; Heb. 9:19; Rev. 17:3, 4; 18:12, 16*

a bed-chamber, Acts 12:20*

a bed, Lk. 11:7; the conjugal bed, Heb. 13:4; meton. sexual intercourse, concubitus; hence, lewdness, whoredom, chambering, Rom. 13:13; in NT conception, Rom.