Strong H1986הָלַם
to smite
- Transliteration
- hâlam
- Pronunciation
- haw-lam'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to strike down; by implication to {hammer} stamp 6
{conquer} disband: - beat ({down}) break ({down}) {overcome} smite (with the hammer).
{conquer} disband: - beat ({down}) break ({down}) {overcome} smite (with the hammer).
Detailed definition
(Qal) to smite, strike, hammer, strike down
In the Bible
Strong H1986 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- break3
- smite2
- beat1
- beaten1
- overcome1
- smote1
First verses
- Judges 5:22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- Judges 5:26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
- 1 Samuel 14:16And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
- Psalms 74:6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
- Psalms 141:5Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
- Proverbs 23:35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
- Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
- Isaiah 41:7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.