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hammer

Meaning of “hammer”

Sense 1: A tool for striking. Sense 2: Figuratively, a crushing force.

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7 occurrences6 verses4 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Judges 4:21

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Every verse containing “hammer”

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Judges 4:21
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Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 4:21 · retained source text

Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.

1611 marginal noteHebr. put.

Judges 5:26
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She 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.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Judges 5:26 · retained source text

Shee put her hand to the naile, and her right hand to the workemens hammer: and with the hammer shee smote Sisera, shee smote off his head, when she had pearsed & striken through his temples.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hammered.

1 Kings 6:7
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And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Kings 6:7 · retained source text

And the house when it was in building, was built of stone, made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any toole of yron heard in the house, while it was in building.

Isaiah 41:7
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So 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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 41:7 · retained source text

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anuill, saying; It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nayles that it should not be moued.

1611 marginal noteOr founder.

1611 marginal noteOr, the smiting.

1611 marginal noteOr, saying of the soder, it is good.

Jeremiah 23:29
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Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 23:29 · retained source text

Is not my word like as a fire, saith the LORD? and like a hammer that breaketh the rocke in pieces?

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