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beat

Meaning of “beat”

To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment.

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36 occurrences36 verses17 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Exodus 30:36

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Acts 16:22
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
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1611 witness · Acts 16:22 · retained source text

And the multitude rose vp together against them, and the Magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beate them.

1611 marginal note2.Cor. 11.25. 1.thes. 2.2.

Acts 18:17
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
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1611 witness · Acts 18:17 · retained source text

Then all the Greekes tooke Sosthenes the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, and beat him before the Iudgement seat: and Gallio cared for none of those things.

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