Quick Definition
a scourge, lash, sufferings
Strong's Definition
a whip (literally, the Roman flagellum for criminals; figuratively, a disease)
Derivation: probably from the base of G3145 (μασσάομαι) (through the idea of contact);
KJV Usage: plague, scourging
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μάστιξ, μαστιχος, ἡ, a whip, scourge (for ωΡεθ, 1Ki_12:11; 1Ki_12:14; Pro_26:3): Act_22:21; Heb_11:36; metaphorically, a scourge, plague, i. e. a calamity, misfortune, especially as sent by God to discipline or punish (Psalm 88:33 (); with Διός added, Homer, Iliad 12, 37; 13, 812; Θεοῦ, Aeschylus sept. 607): of distressing bodily diseases, Mar_3:10; Mar_5:29; Mar_5:34; Luk_7:21; 2Ma_9:11.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μάστιξ mastix 6x
a scourge, whip, Act_22:24 ; Heb_11:36 ;
met. a scourge of disease, Mar_3:10 ; Mar_5:29 ; Mar_5:34 ; Luk_7:21
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μάστιξ , -ιγος , ἡ ,
[in LXX for H7752 , etc.;]
a whip, scourge: Act_22:24 , Heb_11:36 ; metaph ., of disease or suffering as a divine chastisement ( cf. Psa_89:33 , Pro_3:12 , 2Ma_9:11 ), Mar_3:10 ; Mar_5:29 ; Mar_5:34 , Luk_7:21 .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μάστιξ [page 390]
For the literal sense cf. P Leid W i. 32 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 85, cf. p. 166) μάστιγας . . . Αἰγυπτίας , Egyptian whips, such as many of the Egyptian gods are depicted carrying, and the magic tablet PSI I. 28 .4 (iii/iv A.D. ?) πικραῖς μάστιξιν , borne by the Erinyes. For the metaphorical sense ( Mar_3:10 al. ), which is found as early as Homer, cf. the Phrygian inscr. C. and B. ii. p. 520, No. 361 ὃς δ᾽ ἂν ἐπιχειρήσει ἕτερον ἐπεισενενκεῖν ( to bring in another body ), λήψεται παρὰ τοῦ ἀθανάτου θεοῦ μάστειγα αἰώνιον , where the editor remarks that the concluding formula is unique, but seems on the whole to be Chr(istian) : see further Diels Berliner Sitzungsberichte , 1901, p. 199 f. Μαστιγοφόρος in the sense of policeman is found, in PTebt I. 179 (late ii/B.C.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μάστιξ μάστιξ, ι_γος, [Etym: from same Root as ἱμάς, μάσθλης] "a whip, scourge", Hom. , Hdt. , etc.; ἵππου μ. "a horsewhip", Hdt. ; ὑπὸ μαστίγων βαίνειν to advance "under the lash", of soldiers flogged on, id=Hdt. ; so, τοξεύειν ὑπὸ μ. Xen. metaph. "a scourge, plague", Il. , Aesch. ; διπλῇ μ., τὴν Ἄρης φιλεῖ, i. e. fire and sword, Aesch. ; μ. Θεοῦ of sickness, NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μάστιξ, -ιγος, ἡ
[in LXX for שׁוֹט, etc. ;]
a whip, scourge: Act.22:24, Heb.11:36; metaphorically, of disease or suffering as a divine chastisement (cf. Psa.89:33, Pro.3:12, 2Ma.9:11), Mrk.3:10 5:29, 34, Luk.7:21
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