Quick Definition
a slap
Strong's Definition
a slap
Derivation: from G4474 (ῥαπίζω);
KJV Usage: (+ strike with the) palm of the hand, smite with the hand
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῤάπισμα, ῥαπισματος, τό (ῤαπίζω, which see);
1. a blow with a rod or a staff or a scourge (Antiphanes in Athen. 14, p. 623 b.; Anthol., Lucian).
2. a blow with the flat of the hand, a slap in the face, box on the car: βάλλειν τινα ῤαπίσμασιν (see βάλλω, 1), Mar_14:65; διδόναι τίνι ῤάπισμα, Joh_18:22; ῤαπίσματα, Joh_19:3 (but in all three examples R. V. marginal reading recognizes sense 1 (see references under the word ῤαπίζω)).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥάπισμα rhapisma 3x
a blow with the palm of the hand, cuff, slap, Mar_14:65 ; Joh_18:22 ; Joh_19:3
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
From G4474
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ῥάπισμα [page 563]
a blow on the cheek with the open hand : see s.v . ῥαπίζω and add Field Notes , pp. 40 f., 105 f. The word is used of a scar, or the result of a blow, in a vi/A.D. account of the sale of a slave published in Archiv iii. p. 415 ff., see p. 419 .83 , and cf. Sudhoff Δrztliches , p. 143.
The difficult ῥαπίσμασιν αὐτὸν ἔλαβον in Mar_14:65 is fully discussed by Swete ad l ., where he translates they caught Him with blows. The RV adopts the rendering with blows of their hands in the text, but puts the alternative strokes of rods in the margin. Blass ( Gr . p. 118) describes the phrase as a vulgarism, which at present can be paralleled only from a i/A.D. papyrus (αὐτὸν ) κονδύλοις ( knuckles ) ἔλαβεν , published in Fleckeis. Jahrb. f. class. Philol . xxxviii. (1892), pp. 29, 33.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ῥάπισμα ῥάπισμα, ατος, τό, [Etym: ῥαπίζω] "a stroke, a slap on the face", Luc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
a stroke, a slap on the face , (Lucian) (ML)