ἐπιπλήσσω: 1 aorist ἐπεπληξα; a. properly, to strike upon, beat upon: Homer, Iliad 10, 500. b. tropically, to chastise with words, to chide, upbraid, rebuke: 1Ti_5:1. (Homer, Iliad 12, 211; Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, others.)

ἐπιπλήσσω epiplēssō 1x pr. to inflict blows upon; met. to chide, reprove, 1Ti_5:1

* ἐπι -πλήσσω , 1. to strike at, to punish. 2. to rebuke, reprove: 1Ti_5:1 .†

ἐπιπλήσσω [page 243] This NT ἅπ . εἰρ . = rebuke, reprove ( 1Ti_5:1 ), may be illustrated by BGU IV. 1138 .22 (B.C. 19) καὶ αὐτὸ (ν ) ἐ̣π̣ι̣π̣λ̣ῆ̣ξ̣αι καταξίως , and P Flor II. 241 .2 (A.D. 254) . . . απιτ . . ν ἢ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπιπλήσσιν , where the editor translates punish. The same strong sense appears in the use of the subst. (cf. 2Ma_7:33 ) in P Tebt I. 41 .23 ( c. B.C. 119) τύχηι τῆς ἁρμοζούσης ἐπιπλήξεως , may receive suitable punishment (Edd.), and so P Tor I. 1 iii. 14 (B.C. 117 6). A good parallel to the NT passage is afforded by Epict. Ench. xxxiii. 16 with reference to approaches to indecent speech ἂν μὲν εὔκαιρον η , καὶ ἐπίπληξον τῷ προελθόντι , rebuke him who makes the approach (see Sharp Epict. p. 72 f.), and for the sense of severity in the word cf. Eustath. on Hom. Il. x. 500 τὸ ἐπιπλ . καὶ κόπτειν λέγεται ἔτι δὲ καὶ μαστίζειν ἀφ᾽ οὗ καὶ τὸ λόγοις ἐπιπλήσσειν εἴρηται (cited by Wetstein ad 1Ti_5:1 ). See also Field Notes , p. 209.

ἐπιπλήσσω attic -ττω fut. ξω "to strike at, strike smartly", Il. "to chastise" with words, "to rebuke, reprove", c. acc., id=Il. , Plat. ; also c. dat., Il. ἐπ. τί τινι "to cast" a thing "in" one's "teeth", Hdt. , Aesch. :— c. acc. rei only, Soph.

ἐπι-πλήσσω __1. to strike at, to punish. __2. to rebuke, reprove: 1Ti.5:1.† (AS)