KJV dictionary & concordance
Beating or striking repeatedly.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Ezekiel 4:2
Complete exact-word concordance
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it: set the campe also against it, and set battering rammes against it round about.
1611 marginal noteOr, chiefe leaders.
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
At his right hand was the diuination for Ierusalem to appoint captaines, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift vp the voice with shouting, to appoint battering-rammes against the gates, to cast a mount and to build a fort.
1611 marginal noteOr, battering rams.
1611 marginal noteHeb. rams.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Beating; dashing against; bruising or demolishing by beating.
