- Transliteration: Patasso

- Phonetic: pat-as'-so

- Definition:

1. to strike gently: as a part or a member of the body

2. to stroke, smite: with the sword, to afflict, to visit with evils, etc. as with a deadly disease

3. to smite down, cut down, to kill, slay

- Origin: probably prolongation from G3817" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3817

- TDNT entry: 20:39,8

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Probably a prolongation from G3817" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3817; to knock (gently or with a weapon or fatally): - smite strike. Compare G5180" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5180.