Words the Bible translates as punish
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- paqadפָּקַדto turn one's attention to someone and act on it: to step in, whether to help or to harm.
+3 more meanings
- to count people one by one for a purpose: to take a census, or to call up and review fighting men.
- to put someone in charge: to appoint a person over people or things and entrust the responsibility to them.
- to entrust something to someone's keeping: to hand over goods, money, or a charge for safekeeping.
- shaphatשָׁפַטto judge: to exercise rightful authority over a person or dispute and set it right, whether by deciding a case, ruling a people, defending the wronged, or punishing the guilty
- paideuōπαιδεύωto form a person through training, whether by teaching, by corrective discipline, or by punishment
- ekdikeōἐκδικέωto see justice done: to carry out what a wrong requires, whether by securing the wronged party's rights or by exacting the penalty from the wrongdoer
- yasarיָסַרto discipline: to correct and train someone for their good, by words or by hardship or by blows
- mastigoōμαστιγόωto flog: to beat someone with a whip as a punishment ordered by someone in authority
- naqamנָקַםto avenge: to set a wrong right by punishing the wrongdoer, as a rightful authority and not as a private grudge
- kolazōκολάζωto punishnot studied yet
- timōreōτιμωρέωto punishnot studied yet
- anashעָנַשׁto impose a payment on a wrongdoer as his penalty, or to be made to pay one
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