A primary verb (in a strengthened form); to "thump", i.e. Cudgel or pummel (properly, with a stick or bastinado), but in any case by repeated blows; thus differing from paio and patasso, which denote a (usually single) blow with the hand or any instrument, or plesso with the fist (or a hammer), or rhapizo with the palm; as well as from tugchano, an accidental collision); by implication, to punish; figuratively, to offend (the conscience) Textus Receptus Greek Text tuptwtupto etupten etupton tuptein tuptesqai tuptonteV tuptonti |