Matthew 26:67

Buffet [ε κ ο λ α φ ι σ α ν]. With the fist.

Smote with the palms of their hands. All expressed by one word, ejrapisan, from rJapiv, a rod, and meaning to smite with rods, not with the palms. The same word is employed Matthew 5:39. It came to mean generally to strike.