“to hit under the eye (buffet or disable an antagonist as a pugilist), i.e. (figuratively) to tease or annoy (into compliance), subdue (one's passions)”
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
to hit under the eye (buffet or disable an antagonist as a pugilist), i.e. (figuratively) to tease or annoy (into compliance), subdue (one's passions)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
pr. to strike one upon the parts beneath the eye; to beat black and blue; hence, to discipline by hardship, coerce, 1 Cor. 9:27; met. to weary by continual importunities, pester, Lk. 18:5*
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
from a compound of G5259 (ὑπό) and a derivative of G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι);
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