Bible dictionaries

Maul

What Bible dictionaries say about “Maul”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Maul - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

An old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits (Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club.

Maul - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

MAUL, n. [L. malleus. See Mall.]

A heavy wooden hammer; written also mall.

MAUL, v.t. To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

Meek modern faith to murder, hack and maul.

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

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

mol (mephits, literally, "a breaker," "a club," "mace," "mattock"): A smashing weapon like the oriental war-club or the clubs always carried by the shepherds of Lebanon (Pr 25:18; compare Jer 51:20 margin).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(i.e. a hammer), a sort of battleaxe or hammer, used as an implement of war. (25:18)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith