Quick Definition
δράσσομαι v. I take hold of, grasp
Strong's Definition
perhaps akin to the base of 1404 (through the idea of capturing); to grasp, i.e. (figuratively) entrap
KJV Usage: take
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | δίδραχμον · δραχμή
27.32 · Learn · Learn Something Against Someone
to catch, to trap, to seize, to learn in order to seize (figurative extension of meaning of δράσσομαι ‘to catch, to seize,’ not occurring in the NT) to learn something about someone, with the purpose of seizing, arresting, or overcoming
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δράσσομαι; to grasp with the hand, to take: τινά, 1 Co. iii. 19 [B. 291 (250); W. 352 (330)]. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down; Sept.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
δράσσομαι drassomai 1x
pr. to grasp with the hand, clutch; to lay hold of, seize, take, catch, 1 Cor. 3:19*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δράσσομαι
[in LXX for נשׁק pi., Ps 2:12; elsewhere קמץ, as Le 2:2 ;]
to grasp with the hand, to lay hold of : metaph., c. acc (M, Pr., 65), I Co 3:19 (LXX).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
δράσσομαι. For this verb, which is found in the NT only in 1 Cor 3%, where it is substituted for the less vivid καταλαμβάνων of the LXX Job 515. cf. P Oxy X. 1298?° (iv/A.p.) σὲ γὰρ μόνον ἔχω μάρτυρα πῶς ὁ Τοῦνθος δραξάμενός pov—‘‘ laid hands on me.” An otherwise unknown active is doubtfully restored in P Lond 1170 verso4® (a.p. 258-9) (= III. Pp: 196) opol(ws) δίράἼττοντες χόρτον ἐν TH ἃ κλήρί(ῳ). For the constr. with the acc. in the NT passage see Pro/eg. p. 65. For the subst. δράγμα = “handful,” then ‘* sheaf,” as Gen 377, Ruth 27, cf. P Fay 1209 (c. A.D. 100) θέρισον τὸν &[y]pov τῆς ᾿Απιάδος καὶ λύσις εὐθέω εἰς "A. [. .] τὰ Spaγματα, ‘‘reap the field at Apias and let the sheaves go off immediately to A. .” (Edd.). From a series of accounts, P Fay 102 (c. A.D. 105), it appears that the wages paid to workmen were coupled with accounts of γόμοι and farmSpayp(ara) of wheat and barley: see the editors’ intropayment is made eis δράγμα χόρτου. The compounds δραγματηγεία and Spayparnyéw are found P Flor 11. 185% ** (A.D. 254), and in P Petr III. 28 verso (δ) (B.C. 260) we have ἐδραγματοκλέπτει, ** stole sheaves in gleaning ~
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
δράσσομαι (drassomai) — to catch. δράσσομαι, Attic dialect δράττομαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; imperfect ἐδραττόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future δράξομαι [LXX+3rd c.BC+]: aorist ἐδραξάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect δέδραγμαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+], participle δεδραγμένος [Refs 8th c.BC+] —the active, δράσσω only in [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—grasp with the hand, with genitive of things, κόνιος δεδραγμένος αἱματοέσσης clutching handfuls of gory dust, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; δραξάμενοι τῶν ἁλῶν taking a handful of salt, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. lay hold of, τί μου δέδραξαι χερσ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δραξάμενος φάρυγος having seized [them] by the throat, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: metaphorically, δράξασθαι καιροῦ [Refs 1st c.BC+]; μείζονος οἴκου (i.e. by marriage), [Refs 6th c.BC+]; [ὧν χρ]ὴ δράξασθαι τὸ στόμα sounds the mouth has to grip, i.e. make, uncertain in [Refs 1st c.BC+]
II. with accusative, take by handfuls, ταύτας [τὰς μνέας] δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, catch, τοὺς σοφοὺς ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτῶν [NT]