GreekG7579Verb
ἐφάπτω
ephaptō
“to attach to”
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1.to bind on or to, *λύουσα ἢ *' *φάπτουσα *undoing or making fast, (Sophocles Tragicus); *τοὖργον ὡς ἐφάψειεν τόδε *that she had made fast (i. e. perpetrated) the deed, (Sophocles Tragicus):—;Pass., 3rd singular perfect and pluperfect ἐφῆπται, -το, is or was hung over one, impends over, is fixed as one's doom, with dative, Τρώεσσι κήδεe *ἐφῆπται *(Iliad by Homer)
2.Mid. to lay hold of, grasp, reach, with genitive, (Odyssey by Homer)
3.to lay hold of with the mind, attain to, Lat. assequi, with genitive, (Plato Philosophus)
4.in (Pindar) also with dative (like θιγγάνω, ψαύω); to apply oneself to.
5.(Herdotus Historicus) uses participle perfect passive with genitive, *εἴδεος ἐπαμμένος *possessed of a certain degree of beauty.
6.to follow, come next, (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus)
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ἐφάπτω appears 0 times in the New Testament.
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