Quick Definition
ἁρπαγή, ῆς, ἡ n.f. the act of plundering, plunder, spoil
Strong's Definition
from 726; pillage (properly abstract)
KJV Usage: extortion, ravening, spoiling
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ῆς | ἁρπάζω
57.235 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Steal, Rob
to rob, to carry off, to plunder, to forcefully seize to forcefully take something away from someone else, often with the implication of a sudden attack
57.237 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Steal, Rob
plunder, booty (derivative of ἁρπαγή[a] ‘act of plunder,’ 57.235) that which is taken by force or plundered
25.24 · Attitudes and Emotions · Desire Strongly
grasping, violent greed a state of strong desire to gain things and, if necessary, by violent means
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἁρπαγή, -ῆς, 7, (ἁρπάζω), rapine, pillage; 1. the act of plundering, robbery: Heb. x. 34. 2. plunder, spoil : Mt. xxiii. 25; Lk. xi. 89. (Is. iii. 14; Nah.ii. 12. In Grk. writ. fr. Aeschyl. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἁρπαγή harpagē 3x
plunder, pillage; the act of plundering, Heb. 10:34; prey, spoil, Mt. 23:25; Lk. 11:39*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἁρπαγή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἁρπάζω), [in LXX (as also ἅρπαγμα) for גָּזֵל, etc.;]
pillage, plundering, robbery: Mt 23:25, Lk 11:39, He 10:34.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἁρπαγή. Syll 928% (Magnesia, 11,8... 227.) ἢ τῶν κτηνῶν ἁρπαγὴ γεγενημένη. BGU IIT. 871° (ii/A.p.) β[ας καὶ ἁρπαγ[ῆΞ]. P Lips I. 645) (c. A.D. 368) δι᾽ ἁρπαγῆς.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἁρπαγή (harpagē) — plunder. ἁρπαγ-ή, ἡ, seizure, robbery, rape, first in [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὀφλὼν ἁρπαγῆς δίκην found guilty of rape, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἁρπαγὴν ποιεῖσθαι, ποιεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, of a single act, συνεπρήξαντο τὰς Ἑλένης ἁ.[Refs 4th c.BC+]; Καδμείων ἁ., of the Sphinx, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. thing seized, booty, prey, τοῦ φθάσαντος ἁ.[Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἁ. κυσί, θηρσί, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἁρπαγὴν ποιεῖσθαί τι to make booty of a thing. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. greediness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV. ἐν ἁρπαγῇ σελήνης when the moon is invisible, [Refs]