παίω

G3817 is a verb for striking or hitting. Matthew 26:68 and Luke 22:64 use participles for blows within the mocking abuse of Jesus. Mark 14:47 and John 18:10 report a disciple striking the high priest's servant during Jesus' arrest. Revelation 9:5 uses a subjunctive in a comparison with a scorpion's sting. The verb identifies an act or painful impact; it does not determine motive, justice, authority, or ethical permission apart from the scene.

The passion accounts place violence on more than one side of the arrest narrative. Jesus is abused by captors, while a disciple attacks a named servant in John. Matthew and Mark do not identify the attacker by name, so their form must not be assigned to Peter solely from the lexical evidence. John identifies Peter and Malchus, then records Jesus' command to sheath the sword and his acceptance of the Father's cup. No scene permits collective blame toward Jewish people, erases Roman participation in the Passion, or converts a victim's suffering into a duty to remain unsafe.

These five occurrences do not independently settle war, policing, civil authority, self-defense, immediate protection, corporal punishment, or every use of force. They do directly forbid romanticizing the blows against Jesus or treating zeal for him as automatic justification for injuring another person. Revelation's scorpion comparison belongs to symbolic judgment imagery and cannot authorize torture, retaliation, abuse, or predictions about a particular disaster. People facing violence may seek safety, report crime, obtain medical care, and use lawful protection without being told to imitate Jesus' unique redemptive suffering.

Five governed forms cover blows used to mock Jesus, a disciple's strike during the arrest, and an apocalyptic comparison with a scorpion's sting.