Strong's Greek #4141 - πλήσσω pléssó (to strike)

smite, strike.

Apparently another form of plasso (through the idea of flattening out); to pound, i.e. (figuratively) to inflict with (calamity) -- smite. Compare tupto.

see GREEK tupto

see GREEK plasso

Strong's 4141: πλήσσω

πλήσσω (cf. πληγή (πέλαγος), Latinplango, plaga; Curtius, § 367): 2 aorist passive ἐπλήγην; from Homer down; the Sept. for הִכָּה (see πατάσσω, at the beginning); to strike, to smite: passive (of the heavenly bodies smitten by God that they may be deprived of light and shrouded in darkness), Revelation 8:12. (Compare: ἐκπλήσσω, ἐπιπλήσσω.)

Strong's Greek: 4141. πλήσσω (pléssó) — 1 Occurrence

Revelation 8:12 - V-AIP-3S
GRK: ἐσάλπισεν καὶ ἐπλήγη τὸ τρίτον
NAS: of the stars were struck, so
KJV: of the sun was smitten, and
INT: sounded [his] trumpet and was struck a third