- Transliteration: Tupto

- Phonetic: toop'-to

- Definition:

1. to strike, beat, smite

a. with a staff, a whip, the fist, the hand

b. of mourners, to smite their breast

2. to smite one on whom he inflicts punitive evil

3. to smite

a. metaph. i.e. to wound, disquiet one's conscience

- Origin: a primary verb (in a strengthened form)

- TDNT entry: 12:20,1

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: A primary verb (in a strengthened form); to thump that is cudgel or pummel (properly with a stick or bastinado) but in any case by repeated blows; thus differing from G3817" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3817 and G3960" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3960 which denote a [usually single] blow with the hand or any instrument or G4141" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4141 with the fist [or a hammer] or G4474" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4474 with the palm; as well as from G5177" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5177 an accidental collision); by implication to punish; figuratively to offend (the conscience): - beat smite strike wound.