KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of hough, meaning to disable a horse by cutting the sinews or part at the back of its leg.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Joshua 11:9
Complete exact-word concordance
And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
And Ioshua did vnto them as the LORD bade him: hee houghed their horses, and burnt their charets with fire.
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen hundred horsemen, and twentie thousand footemen: and Dauid houghed all the charet horses, but reserued of them for an hundred charets.
1611 marginal noteOr, of his.
1611 marginal noteAs 1.Chr. 18.4.
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and twentie thousand footmen: Dauid also houghed all the charet horses, but reserued of them an hundred charets.
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