UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: βάλλω; fut.; βαλῶ; βάλλω; aor.; ἔβαλον; βάλλω; pf.; βέβληκα; βάλλω; aor.pass.; ἐβλήθην; βάλλω; fut.; βληθήσομαι; βάλλω; pf.; βέβλημαι; βάλλω; plpf.; ἐβεβλήμην

Sense 1: to throw

Semantic entry: 15.215

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Throw, Hurl

MAT 3:10: RV MAT 3:10 · LV MAT 3:10 · Read together MAT 3:10

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OET-RV MAT 3:10

10 The axe has already been placed at the base of the trees ready to cut down any tree that’s not producing good fruit, and then it’ll be thrown into the fire.

OET-LV MAT 3:10

10 And already the axe is _lying to the root of _the trees, therefore every tree not producing good fruit is _being _cut _off and is _being _thrown into the_fire.

MAT 4:6: RV MAT 4:6 · LV MAT 4:6 · Read together MAT 4:6

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OET-RV MAT 4:6

6 and told him, “Throw yourself down if you’re God’s son, because it’s written in the scriptures that God will command his messengers to look after you and to carry you in their arms so that you won’t bash your foot on a rock.”

OET-LV MAT 4:6

6 and he _is _saying to _him:
If you _are the_son of_ the _god, throw yourself down, because/for it _has _been _written, that Will _be _commanding to _the messengers of _him concerning you, and:
They _will _be _carrying you in their_hands, lest you _may _strike the foot of _you against a_stone.

All 63 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: RV MRK 4:26 · RV MRK 7:27 · RV MRK 9:22 · RV MRK 9:42 · RV MRK 9:45 · RV MRK 9:47 · RV MRK 11:23 · RV MRK 15:24 · LV MRK 4:26 · LV MRK 7:27 · LV MRK 9:22 · LV MRK 9:42 · LV MRK 9:45 · LV MRK 9:47 · LV MRK 11:23 · LV MRK 15:24 · Read together MRK 4:26 · Read together MRK 7:27 · Read together MRK 9:22 · Read together MRK 9:42 · Read together MRK 9:45 · Read together MRK 9:47 · Read together MRK 11:23 · Read together MRK 15:24

LUK: RV LUK 3:9 · RV LUK 4:9 · RV LUK 12:28 · RV LUK 12:58 · RV LUK 13:19 · RV LUK 14:35 · RV LUK 16:20 · RV LUK 21:2 · RV LUK 23:19 · RV LUK 23:25 · RV LUK 23:34 · LV LUK 3:9 · LV LUK 4:9 · LV LUK 12:28 · LV LUK 12:58 · LV LUK 13:19 · LV LUK 14:35 · LV LUK 16:20 · LV LUK 21:2 · LV LUK 23:19 · LV LUK 23:25 · LV LUK 23:34 · Read together LUK 3:9 · Read together LUK 4:9 · Read together LUK 12:28 · Read together LUK 12:58 · Read together LUK 13:19 · Read together LUK 14:35 · Read together LUK 16:20 · Read together LUK 21:2 · Read together LUK 23:19 · Read together LUK 23:25 · Read together LUK 23:34

JHN: RV JHN 8:7 · RV JHN 8:59 · RV JHN 15:6 · RV JHN 19:24 · RV JHN 21:6–7 · LV JHN 8:7 · LV JHN 8:59 · LV JHN 15:6 · LV JHN 19:24 · LV JHN 21:6–7 · Read together JHN 8:7 · Read together JHN 8:59 · Read together JHN 15:6 · Read together JHN 19:24 · Read together JHN 21:6–7

ACT: RV ACT 22:23 · LV ACT 22:23 · Read together ACT 22:23

Sense 2: to let fall, to drop

Semantic entry: 15.122

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Fall

Definition: to cause or to let fall down

REV 6:13: RV REV 6:13 · LV REV 6:13 · Read together REV 6:13

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13 Also the stars fell out of the sky, just like how a fig tree out of season drops its fruit when it gets shaken by a strong wind.

OET-LV REV 6:13

13 and the stars of _the sky fell to the earth, as a_fig _tree is _casting the unripe _figs of _it, by a_wind great being _shaken.

Sense 3: to sweep down, to rush down

Semantic entry: 15.112

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Come/Go Down, Descend

Definition: to move down suddenly and quickly

Notes: In a number of languages, however, it may be more appropriate to speak of a strong wind ‘blowing down from the island.’

ACT 27:14: RV ACT 27:14 · LV ACT 27:14 · Read together ACT 27:14

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OET-RV ACT 27:14

14 However, a short while later the wind turned to a violent north-easter which forced us out to sea.

OET-LV ACT 27:14

14 But after not much time, a_ typhoon _wind, which being _called the_Eurokludōn throw down.
from _it.

Sense 4: to pour

Semantic entry: 47.2

Semantic domains: Activities Involving Liquids or Masses

Subdomains: Movement of Liquids or Masses

Definition: to cause a liquid to pour

MAT 9:17: RV MAT 9:17 · LV MAT 9:17 · Read together MAT 9:17

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17 And they don’t put new wine into an old container, otherwise the container could split and be ruined, and the wine would be lost. Instead, they put new wine into a new container, and both survive.”

OET-LV MAT 9:17

17 Nor are _they _putting new wine into old wineskins, and if not surely, the wineskins are _being _burst, and the wine is _being _poured _out and the wineskins are _being _destroyed.
But they _are _putting new wine into new wineskins, and both are _being _preserved.

MAT 26:12: RV MAT 26:12 · LV MAT 26:12 · Read together MAT 26:12

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OET-RV MAT 26:12

12 This woman put this lotion on my body in a sense as a burial spice.

OET-LV MAT 26:12

12 For/Because this woman, having _put the on_ this _ointment on the body of _me, because/for did it that to _bury me.

All 7 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 9:17 · RV MAT 26:12 · LV MAT 9:17 · LV MAT 26:12 · Read together MAT 9:17 · Read together MAT 26:12

MRK: RV MRK 2:22 · LV MRK 2:22 · Read together MRK 2:22

LUK: RV LUK 5:37 · LV LUK 5:37 · Read together LUK 5:37

JHN: RV JHN 13:5 · LV JHN 13:5 · Read together JHN 13:5

REV: RV REV 12:15–16 · LV REV 12:15–16 · Read together REV 12:15–16

Sense 5: to put, to cause to be put

Semantic entry: 85.34

Semantic domains: Existence in Space

Subdomains: Put, Place

Definition: to put or place some object or mass in a location, with the possible implication of force in some contexts

MAT 8:6: RV MAT 8:6 · LV MAT 8:6 · Read together MAT 8:6

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OET-RV MAT 8:6

6 saying, “Master, I have a slave who’s paralysed and has to stay in bed because he’s being badly tormented.”

OET-LV MAT 8:6

6 and saying, master, the paralytic servant of _me has _been _laid in the house, being _tormented terribly.

MAT 8:14: RV MAT 8:14 · LV MAT 8:14 · Read together MAT 8:14

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OET-RV MAT 8:14

14 When Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) came to Kefa’s (Peter; Grk. Petros) house, he saw Kefa’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.

OET-LV MAT 8:14

14 And the Yaʸsous having _come to the house of _Petros, he _saw the mother _in _law of _him having _been _laid and being _feverish,

All 30 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 8:6 · RV MAT 8:14 · RV MAT 9:2 · RV MAT 9:17 · RV MAT 18:8 · RV MAT 18:30 · RV MAT 27:6 · LV MAT 8:6 · LV MAT 8:14 · LV MAT 9:2 · LV MAT 9:17 · LV MAT 18:8 · LV MAT 18:30 · LV MAT 27:6 · Read together MAT 8:6 · Read together MAT 8:14 · Read together MAT 9:2 · Read together MAT 9:17 · Read together MAT 18:8 · Read together MAT 18:30 · Read together MAT 27:6

MRK: RV MRK 7:30 · RV MRK 7:33 · RV MRK 12:41–44 · LV MRK 7:30 · LV MRK 7:33 · LV MRK 12:41–44 · Read together MRK 7:30 · Read together MRK 7:33 · Read together MRK 12:41–44

LUK: RV LUK 5:37 · RV LUK 13:8 · RV LUK 21:1 · RV LUK 21:3–4 · LV LUK 5:37 · LV LUK 13:8 · LV LUK 21:1 · LV LUK 21:3–4 · Read together LUK 5:37 · Read together LUK 13:8 · Read together LUK 21:1 · Read together LUK 21:3–4

JHN: RV JHN 3:24 · RV JHN 5:7 · RV JHN 12:6 · RV JHN 18:11 · RV JHN 20:25 · RV JHN 20:27 · LV JHN 3:24 · LV JHN 5:7 · LV JHN 12:6 · LV JHN 18:11 · LV JHN 20:25 · LV JHN 20:27 · Read together JHN 3:24 · Read together JHN 5:7 · Read together JHN 12:6 · Read together JHN 18:11 · Read together JHN 20:25 · Read together JHN 20:27

ACT: RV ACT 16:23–24 · RV ACT 16:37 · LV ACT 16:23–24 · LV ACT 16:37 · Read together ACT 16:23–24 · Read together ACT 16:37

JAM: RV JAM 3:3 · LV JAM 3:3 · Read together JAM 3:3

REV: RV REV 2:14 · RV REV 2:24 · LV REV 2:14 · LV REV 2:24 · Read together REV 2:14 · Read together REV 2:24

Sense 6: to cause, to bring about

Semantic entry: 13.14

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: State

Definition: to cause a state or condition, with focus upon the suddenness or force of the action

MAT 10:34: RV MAT 10:34 · LV MAT 10:34 · Read together MAT 10:34

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34 “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth. No, I came to bring war, not peace,

OET-LV MAT 10:34

34 You _all _may_ not _think that I _came to _bring peace to the earth, I _came not to _bring peace, but a_sword.

Sense 7: to remove, to drive out, to do away with

Semantic entry: 13.45

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: State

Definition: to cause a state to cease by force and with the implication of elimination

Notes: In a number of languages it is extremely difficult to speak of states such as love and fear as being respectively agent and affected element. Therefore, it may be necessary to shift significantly the semantic structure so as to translate this expression in RV JN1 4:18 · LV JN1 4:18 · Read together JN1 4:18 as ‘if one completely loves, he does not at all fear.’

JN1 4:18: RV JN1 4:18 · LV JN1 4:18 · Read together JN1 4:18

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18 There’s no fear in love, but rather perfect love drives away fear, because our fear is that of being punished but the one fearing has not been perfected in love.

OET-LV JN1 4:18

18 Fear is not in the love, but the perfect love is _casting out the fear, because the fear is _having punishment, and the one fearing, has_ not _˓been˒_perfected in the love.

Sense 8: to deposit, to put in a bank

Semantic entry: 57.217

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Lend, Loan, Interest, Borrow, Bank

Definition: to deposit money with a banker, with the intent of earning interest

MAT 25:27: RV MAT 25:27 · LV MAT 25:27 · Read together MAT 25:27

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OET-RV MAT 25:27

27 so you should’ve at least invested my silver with the bankers, and then I could’ve got it back with some interest.

OET-LV MAT 25:27

27 Therefore it _was _fitting you to _put the silver _coins of _me to _the bankers, and having _come, I would received _back the mine with interest.

Sense 9: to cause illness, to make sick

Semantic entry: 23.152

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Sickness, Disease, Weakness

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to throw on a bed) to cause someone to become very ill

Collocations: βάλλω εἰς κλίνην

REV 2:22: RV REV 2:22 · LV REV 2:22 · Read together REV 2:22

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OET-RV REV 2:22

22 Listen, I’m going to punish her with a terrible sickness, and to punish those who are committing adultery with her with terrible suffering if they don’t turn away from what she’s doing.

OET-LV REV 2:22

22 see, I _am _casting her into a_bed, and the ones committing _adultery with her into tribulation great, if not they _will _be _repenting of the works of _her.

Sense 10: to make think, to fill the heart, to cause to decide

Semantic entry: 30.29

Semantic domains: Think

Subdomains: To Think, Thought

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to throw into the heart) to cause someone to think in a particular manner, often as a means of inducing some behavior

Collocations: βάλλω εἰς τὴν καρδίαν

JHN 13:2: RV JHN 13:2 · LV JHN 13:2 · Read together JHN 13:2

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OET-RV JHN 13:2

2 And now it was getting near time for the dinner and the devil had already put into Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) Iskariot’s mind the idea of handing Yeshua over to the authorities.

OET-LV JHN 13:2

2 And becoming, supper, the devil already having _put into the heart Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) of _Simōn Iskariōtaʸs that may _give_ him _over

Sense 11: to use a sickle, to swing a sickle, to begin to harvest

Semantic entry: 43.17

Semantic domains: Agriculture

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to throw a sickle) to begin to harvest a crop by cutting ripe grain with a sickle

Notes: In RV REV 14:16 · LV REV 14:16 · Read together REV 14:16 and RV REV 14:19 · LV REV 14:19 · Read together REV 14:19 this idiom occurs in a figurative context, and therefore it may be necessary in some languages to speak of ‘harvesting’ rather than using a phrase which mentions the literal use of a sickle.

Collocations: βάλλω τὸ δρέπανον

REV 14:16: RV REV 14:16 · LV REV 14:16 · Read together REV 14:16

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OET-RV REV 14:16

16 So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was harvested.

OET-LV REV 14:16

16 And throw the one sitting on the cloud the sickle of _him on the earth, and was _reaped the earth.

REV 14:19: RV REV 14:19 · LV REV 14:19 · Read together REV 14:19

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OET-RV REV 14:19

19 So the messenger swung his sickle across the earth and harvested the grapevine of the earth, and he threw the grapes into the great wine-pressing pit which is God’s anger.

OET-LV REV 14:19

19 And throw the messenger the sickle of _him to the earth, and picked the vine of _the earth, and throw them into the wine-press of _the rage of_ the _god the great.

Sense 12: to cause discord, to cause division

Semantic entry: 39.15

Semantic domains: Hostility, Strife

Subdomains: Division

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to throw fire) to cause discord and contention

Notes: Some translators have preferred to retain the literal rendering of this expression in RV LUK 12:49 · LV LUK 12:49 · Read together LUK 12:49, since this seems to be necessary in view of the larger figurative context, which speaks of ‘how I wish it were already kindled’ (τί θέλω εἰ ἤδη ἀνήφθη). A strictly literal translation may, however, be understood in a completely physical sense, namely, ‘to set the world on fire.’ There are a number of quite diverse interpretations of the significance of this expression in RV LUK 12:49 · LV LUK 12:49 · Read together LUK 12:49. Some have assumed, for example, that it refers to the fire of Pentecost.

Collocations: πῦρ βάλλω

LUK 12:49: RV LUK 12:49 · LV LUK 12:49 · Read together LUK 12:49

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OET-RV LUK 12:49