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smite

Meaning of “smite”

To strike, hit, beat, wound, kill, defeat, destroy, afflict, plague, or bring a forceful blow, judgment, correction, or rebuke upon someone or something.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
125 occurrences117 verses28 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 8:21

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Deuteronomy 28:35
The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 28:35 · retained source text

The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legges with a sore botch that cannot bee healed, from the sole of thy foot, vnto the top of thy head.

Deuteronomy 33:11
Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 33:11 · retained source text

Blesse, LORD, his substance, and accept the worke of his handes, smite thorow the loines of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not againe.

Joshua 7:3
And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
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1611 witness · Joshua 7:3 · retained source text

And they returned to Ioshua, and said vnto him, Let not all the people goe vp: but let about two or three thousand men goe vp, and smite Ai, and make not all the people to labour thither, for they are but few.

1611 marginal noteHeb. about 2000.men: or, about 3000.men.

Joshua 10:4
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Joshua 10:4 · retained source text

Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Ioshua, and with the children of Israel.

Joshua 10:19
And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand.
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1611 witness · Joshua 10:19 · retained source text

And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them, suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath deliuered them into your hand.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off the taile.

Joshua 12:6
Them did Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
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1611 witness · Joshua 12:6 · retained source text

Them did Moses the seruant of the LORD, and the children of Israel smite, and Moses the seruant of the LORD gaue it for a possession vnto the Reubenites, and Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh.

1611 marginal noteNum. 32.29. deut. 3.12. Chap. 13.8.

Joshua 13:12
All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
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1611 witness · Joshua 13:12 · retained source text

All the kingdome of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 3.11. Chap. 12.4.

Judges 6:16
And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Judges 6:16 · retained source text

And the LORD said vnto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man.

Judges 20:31
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
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1611 witness · Judges 20:31 · retained source text

And the children of Beniamin went out against the people, and were drawen away from the citie, and they began to smite of the people and kill as at other times, in the high wayes, of which one goeth vp to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirtie men of Israel.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to smite of the people wounded as at &c.

1611 marginal noteOr, Bethel.

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