Besom

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Besom - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning sweeper, occurs only in Isa. 14:23, of the sweeping away, the utter ruin, of Babylon.

Besom - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

BE'SOM, n. s as z. A broom; a brush of twigs for sweeping.

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts. Isa 14.

BE'SOM, v.t. To sweep, as with a besom.

Rolls back all Greece,and besoms wide the plain.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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