Quick Definition
I touch, handle
Strong's Definition
to manipulate, i.e. have to do with; by implication, to injure
Derivation: a prolonged form of an obsolete primary (to finger);
KJV Usage: handle, touch
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θιγγάνω (probably akin to τεῖχος, fingo, fiction, etc.; Curtius, § 145): 2 aorist ἔθιγον; to touch, handle: μηδέ θίγῃς touch not namely, impure things, Col_2:21 (cf. ἅπτω, 2 c.); τίνος, Heb_12:20 ((Aeschylus), Xenophon, Plato, Tragg., others); like the Hebrew πΘβΗς , to do violence to, injure: τίνος, Heb_11:28 (Euripides, Iph. Aul. 1351; ὧν αἱ βλαβαι αὗται θιγγανουσι, Act. Thom. § 12). (Synonym: see ἅπτω, 2 c.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
θιγγάνω thinganō 3x
to touch, Col_2:21 ; Heb_12:20 ;
to harm, Heb_11:28
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
θιγγάνω ,
[in LXX for H5060 , Exo_19:12 * ;]
1. to touch, handle: Col_2:21 , Heb_12:20 ( LXX ).
2. to injure (like Heb . H5060 , and as in Eur ., Iph. Aul., 1351): c . gen ., Heb_11:28 .†
SYN.: see ἅπτω G681 .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
θιγγάνω [page 292]
For this verb, which is classed as un-Attic by Rutherford NP , pp. 169 f., 391, cf. P Oxy IX. 1185 .11 ( c. A.D. 200) ὀψαρίου μὴ θινγάνειν , do not touch the sauce. For the gen. constr., as in Heb_11:28 ; Heb_12:28 , and LXX, cf. also Aristeas 106 ὅπως πηδενὸς θιγγάνωσιν ὧν οὐ δέον ἐστιν .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
θιγγάνω [Etym: cf. Lat. te-tig-i] [Etym: lengthd. from Root ΘΙΓ.] "to touch, handle", c. gen., Trag. "to take hold of", τινός Soph. , etc.; ὠλέναις θ. τινός "to embrace", Eur. "to touch, attempt", λόγου γλώσσηι θ. Soph. :—in hostile sense, "to attack", θηρός Eur. metaph. of the feelings, "to touch", id=Eur. ; ψυχῆς, φρενῶν θ. id=Eur. ; πολλὰ θιγγάνει πρὸς ἧπαρ "reach" to the heart, Aesch. "to reach, gain, win", τινός Pind. , etc.:— Pind. uses it in this sense, as he does ψαύω, c. dat.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
θιγγάνω
[in LXX for נָגַע, Exo.19:12 * ;]
__1. to touch, handle: Col.2:21, Heb.12:20" (LXX) .
__2. to injure (like Heb. נָגַע, and as in Eur., Iph. Aul., 1351): with genitive, Heb.11:28.†
SYN.: see: ἅπτω (AS)