STRONGS NUMBER G3572


Word Summary
nyssō: to pierce
Original Word: νύσσω
Transliteration: nyssō
Phonetic Spelling: (noos'-so)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to pierce
Meaning: to pierce
Strong's Concordance
pierce.

Apparently a primary word; to prick ("nudge") -- pierce.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3572: νύσσω

νύσσω (νύττω): 1 aorist ἔνυξα; to strike (?), pierce; to pierce through, transfix; often in Homer of severe or even deadly wounds given one; as, τόν μέν ἔγχει νυξ' ... στυγερός δ' ἄρα μίν σκότος ἑιλε, Iliad 5, 45. 47; φθάσας αὐτόν ἐκεῖνος νυττει κάτωθεν ὑπό τόν βουβωνα δόρατι καί παραχρῆμα διεργάζεται, Josephus, b. j. 3, 7, 35; so τήν πλευράν λόγχη, John 19:34, cf. John 20:25, 27. On the further use of the word cf. Fritzsche, Romans, ii., p. 559. (Compare: κατανύσσω.)