KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of pierce, meaning to penetrate, puncture, stab, or pass sharply through a body or object.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Judges 5:26
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
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.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
For dogges haue compassed me: the assembly of the wicked haue inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feete.
1611 marginal noteMat.27.35. Mar.15.24. Luc.23.33. Ioh.19.23. & 37.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
And I wil powre vpon the house of Dauid, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall looke vpon me whom they haue pearced, and they shal mourne for him, as one mourneth for his onely sonne, and shall be in bitternesse for him, as one that is in bitternesse for his first borne.
1611 marginal noteIoh.19.34, 37. reuel.1.7.
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
But one of the souldiers with a speare pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
And againe another Scripture saith, They shall looke on him whom they piersed.
1611 marginal noteZach. 12.10.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
For the loue of money is the root of all euill, which while some coueted after, they haue erred from the faith, and pierced themselues through with many sorrowes.
1611 marginal noteOr, bene seduced.
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Behold he commeth with clouds, and euery eye shal see him, and they also which pearced him: and all kinreds of the earth shall waile because of him: euen so. Amen.
1611 marginal noteMatt. 24.30.
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