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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Punish

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

32exact KJV occurrences 31Old Testament 1New Testament 9books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 32occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Leviticus 26:18

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Acts 4:21

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where punish appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Leviticus 22 verses Proverbs 11 verses Isaiah 55 verses Jeremiah 1515 verses Hosea 33 verses Amos 11 verses Zephaniah 33 verses Zechariah 11 verses Acts 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH6485
פָּקַד

pâqad · paw-kad'

27 times translated as this KJV form304 total Strong's occurrences

v n-m

to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.

Strong's KJV usage: appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, × by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, × surely, visit, want.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Isaiah 10:12Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:12

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GreekG2849
κολάζω

kolázō · kol-ad'-zo

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

properly, to curtail, i.e. (figuratively) to chastise (or reserve for infliction)

Strong's KJV usage: :--punish.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 4:21Strong's last: Acts 4:21

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HebrewH5221
נָכָה

nâkâh · naw-kaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form500 total Strong's occurrences

v

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), × go forward, × indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, × surely, wound.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Leviticus 26:24Strong's last: Leviticus 26:24

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HebrewH7489
רָעַע

râʻaʻ · raw-ah'

1 times translated as this KJV form83 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

Strong's KJV usage: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Zechariah 8:14Strong's last: Zechariah 8:14

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Isaiah 10:12
H6485

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Isaiah 13:11
H6485

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isaiah 24:21
H6485

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

Isaiah 26:21
H6485

For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Isaiah 27:1
H6485

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

punish

PUN'ISH, verb transitive [Latin punio, from the root of poena, pain. The primary sense is to press or strain.]

1. To pain; to afflict with pain, loss or calamity for a crime or fault; primarily, to afflict with bodily pain, as to punish a thief with pillory or stripes; but the word is applied also to affliction by loss of property, by transportation, banishment, seclusion from society, etc. The laws require murderers to be punished with death. Other offenders are to be punished with fines, imprisonment, hard labor, etc. God punishes men for their sins with calamities personal and national.

2. To chastise; as, a father punishes his child for disobedience.

3. To regard with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender; applied to the crime; as, to punish murder or theft.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

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