a primary verb (in a strengthened form); TDNT - 8:260,1195
AV - smite 9, beat 3, strike 1, wound 1; 14
1) to strike, beat, smite
1a) with a staff, a whip, the fist, the hand
1b) of mourners, to smite their breast
2) to smite one on whom he inflicts punitive evil
3) to smite
3a) metaph. i.e. to wound, disquiet one's conscience