G3731
G3731 — ὅρμημα
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
hormema (hor'-may-mah) n.
1. an attack
2. (abstractly) precipitancy
[from G3730]
KJV: violence
Root(s): G3730
TWOT
Not assigned in current lawful mapping.
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KJV Renderings
violence
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὅρμημα, ὁρμηματος, τό (ὁρμάω), a rush, impulse: Rev 18:21 (here A. V. violence). (For òÆáÀøÈä outburst of wrath, Amo 1:11; Hab 3:8, cf. Schleusner, Thesaurus iv., p. 123; an enterprise, venture, Homer, Iliad 2, 356, 590, although interpreters differ about its meaning there (cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer or Liddell and Scott, v.); that to which one is impelled or hurried away by impulse (rather, incitement, stimulus), Plutarch, mor. (de virt. mor. § 12), p. 452c.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ὅρμημα (violence)
Revelation 18:21
- KJV: And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast into the sea saying Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all
- GK: και ήρεν εις άγγελος ισχυρός λίθον ως μύλον μέγαν και έβαλεν εις την θάλασσαν λέγων ούτως ορμήματι βληθήσεται Βαβυλών η μεγάλη πόλις και ου ευρέθη έτι