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Matthew 8:3 ἥψατο He touched

Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Here: 'He touched.' The verb takes a genitive object ('of him'). In the purity laws, touching a person with skin disease meant contact with a source of impurity. That is what makes the act striking.

Matthew 8:15 ἥψατο He touched

So He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve Him.

Here: In the middle voice, as here, the verb means 'touch' or 'take hold of' (its active form means 'kindle,' which is the gloss given in the source data). Jesus makes physical contact. No one asked him to; in Matthew he sees her and acts.

Matthew 9:20 ἥψατο she touched

Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.

Here: A single completed act: she touched. In this middle form the verb means 'touch' or 'take hold of', not 'kindle', which is the active sense listed first under Strong's G681.

Matthew 9:21 ἅψωμαι I shall touch

She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”

Here: Aorist middle subjunctive, 'I touch', a single moment of contact. The active form of this verb means 'to kindle', but the middle form used here always means 'touch' in the Gospels. Touch is the normal way healing passes in Matthew 8–9.

Matthew 9:29 ἥψατο He touched

Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”

Here: A single, completed act: he touched. In the active voice the verb means “to kindle” (the supplied dictionary gloss), but in the middle voice used here it always means “to touch.” Jesus heals by touching just as he did the leper (8:3), Peter's mother-in-law (8:15) and the dead girl (9:25).

Matthew 14:36 ἅψωνται ἥψαντο they may touch, touched

and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

Here: The middle form means 'touch' or 'take hold of', not 'kindle'. It is the word Matthew uses for Jesus' healing touch (8:3, 8:15, 9:29) and for the bleeding woman's touch (9:20–21). Here the sick are the ones who reach out and touch.

Matthew 17:7 ἁψάμενος having touched

Then Jesus came over and touched them. “Get up,” He said. “Do not be afraid.”

Here: 'Having touched them.' This is the same verb Matthew uses when Jesus touches the leper, the fevered woman and the blind men. It is a physical, restoring touch, and it comes before he speaks.

Matthew 20:34 ἥψατο touched

Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once they received their sight and followed Him.

Mark 1:41 ἥψατο He touched him

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”

Here: 'He touched.' The middle form means to touch or lay hold of, not 'kindle' (the active sense listed in the dictionary entry). This is real bodily contact with a man whose condition made him a source of ritual impurity.

Mark 3:10 ἅψωνται they may touch

For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.

Here: Aorist middle subjunctive: 'so that they might get a touch of him.' The aorist pictures a single moment of contact, which was all they believed they needed.

Mark 5:27 ἥψατο she touched

When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

Mark 5:28 ἅψωμαι I shall touch

For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”

Mark 5:30 ἥψατο touched

At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”

Mark 5:31 ἥψατο; touched?

His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”

Mark 6:56 ἅψωνται, ἥψαντο they shall touch,, touched

And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

Here: 'They might touch.' In the middle voice this verb means 'touch' or 'take hold of'. (The active voice means 'kindle', which explains the supplied lexical gloss, but that sense is not in play here.) The aorist presents one single act of contact.

Mark 7:33 ἥψατο He touched

So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.

Mark 8:22 ἅψηται. He may touch.

When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

Here: "He might touch". The form is a one-time action, and the middle voice of this verb means "touch", not "kindle". They ask for physical contact because healing power was expected to pass through Jesus' touch.

Mark 10:13 ἅψηται· He may touch;

Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

Here: 'He might touch.' This is the middle form, which means 'touch'. The supplied gloss 'kindle' belongs to the active form and does not apply. In Mark, Jesus' touch carries healing power and blessing. Verse 16 shows what the touch was for: he lays his hands on them and blesses them.

Luke 5:13 ἥψατο He touched

Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

Luke 6:19 ἅπτεσθαι to touch

The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.

Here: In this form the verb means to make physical contact, even to grab hold. This is not a brush in passing. People wanted their bodies to reach his.

Luke 7:14 ἥψατο He touched

Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”

Here: "He touched." This is the middle form of the verb, which means touch or grasp. The supplied gloss "kindle" belongs to the active form and does not apply here. The Greek Old Testament uses this same verb in the law about corpse impurity: "whoever touches the dead" (Num 19:11).

Luke 7:39 ἅπτεται touches

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”

Here: Present tense: she is still touching him while Simon thinks this. The middle voice means touching or holding on. Here the touch is close and physical: kissing and rubbing his feet.

Luke 8:16 ἅψας having lighted

No one lights a lamp and covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.

Here: 'Having lit.' The verb's form shows the lighting is already done. The lamp is burning, and the only question left is where to put it.

Luke 8:44 ἥψατο she touched

She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.

Luke 8:45 ἁψάμενός having touched

“Who touched Me?” Jesus asked. But they all denied it. “Master,” said Peter, “the people are crowding and pressing against You.”

Luke 8:46 ἥψατό Touched

But Jesus declared, “Someone touched Me, for I know that power has gone out from Me.”

Luke 8:47 ἥψατο she touched

Then the woman, seeing that she could not escape notice, came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched Him and how she had immediately been healed.

Luke 11:33 ἅψας having lit

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.

Here: An aorist participle, "having lit." The lighting is already done before the question of where to put the lamp comes up. Nobody spends oil and effort lighting a lamp only to waste it.

Luke 15:8 ἅπτει she lights

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?

Luke 18:15 ἅπτηται· He may touch;

Now people were even bringing their babies to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them. And when the disciples saw this, they rebuked those who brought them.

Here: 'He might touch.' In Luke, Jesus' touch heals and makes clean, and power goes out from him. Here it means touch for a blessing. Matthew spells this out as laying hands on them and praying.

Luke 22:51 ἁψάμενος having touched

But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.

John 20:17 ἅπτου· do yourself touch;

“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

Here: A present imperative in the middle voice: 'keep holding / go on clinging'. With μή it most naturally means 'stop clinging to me' or 'don't hold on to me'. Mary has evidently already taken hold of him (compare Matthew 28:9, where the women grasp his feet).

Acts 28:2 ἅψαντες Having kindled

The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.

Here: 'Having lit.' This is the active sense of the verb (to set alight). The same root appears in v. 3, where the viper 'fastened on' Paul's hand (kathēpsen).

1 Corinthians 7:1 ἅπτεσθαι· to touch;

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

2 Corinthians 6:17 ἅπτεσθε· do touch;

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

Here: Present imperative: 'do not be touching', an ongoing rule rather than a single act. In the law, touching passed on impurity, which made the word a strong image for contact that defiles. (The supplied gloss 'to kindle' is the active sense; in the middle voice used here it means 'touch'.)

Colossians 2:21 ἅψῃ you may handle

“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

1 John 5:18 ἅπτεται does touch

We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Here: In the middle voice with a genitive this means 'take hold of, touch', often in the hostile sense of seizing or harming (as in 'touch not my anointed'). The supplied gloss 'to kindle' belongs to the active voice and does not apply here.