Word Summary
mōlōps: a bruise
Original Word: μώλωψTransliteration: mōlōps
Phonetic Spelling: (mo'-lopes)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a bruise
Meaning: a bruise
Strong's Concordance
stripe, wound
From molos ("moil"; probably akin to the base of molis) and probably ops (the face; from optanomai); a mole ("black eye") or blow-mark -- stripe.
see GREEK molis
see GREEK optanomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3468: μώλωψμώλωψ,
μώλωπος,
ὁ (
Hesychius τραῦμα καί ὁ ἐκ αἱματώδης τόπος ἤ καί τά ἐξερχομενα τῶν πληγῶν ὕδατα),
a bruise, wale, wound that trickles with blood:
1 Peter 2:24 from
Isaiah 53:5 (where
A. V. stripes). (
Genesis 4:23;
Exodus 21:25;
Isaiah 1:6.
Aristotle,
Plutarch,
Anthol., others.)