Lexical Summary
pléktés: Violent person, bully, striker
Original Word: πλήκτης
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: pléktés
Pronunciation: playk-tace'
Phonetic Spelling: (plake'-tace)
KJV: striker
NASB: pugnacious
Word Origin: [from G4141 (πλήσσω - struck)]
1. a smiter, i.e. pugnacious (quarrelsome)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
bully, striker.
From plesso; a smiter, i.e. Pugnacious (quarrelsome) -- striker.
see GREEK plesso
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
pléssóDefinitiona striker
NASB Translationpugnacious (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4131: πλήκτηςπλήκτης,
πληκτου,
ὁ (
πλήσσω) (
Vulg.percussor), (
A. V. striker),
bruiser, ready with a blow; a pugnacious, contentious, quarrelsome person:
1 Timothy 3:3;
Titus 1:7. (
Plutarch, Marcell. 1; Pyrrh. 30; Crass. 9; Fab. 19; (
Diogenes Laërtius 6, 38; others.)