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handstaves

Meaning of “handstaves”

Staffs or clubs carried in the hand and classed among weapons.

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First occurrence: Ezekiel 39:9

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Ezekiel 39:9
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 39:9 · retained source text

And they that dwell in the cities of Israel, shall goe forth, and shall set on fire, and burne the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bowes and the arrowes, and the handstaues and the speares, and they shall burne them with fire seuen yeeres.

1611 marginal noteOr, iauelins.

1611 marginal noteOr, make a fire of them.

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