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smote

Meaning of “smote”

1. Struck or dealt a blow to a person or thing with a hand, weapon, instrument, object, or force. 2. Attacked, defeated, slew, destroyed, or devastated a person, army, city, people, or land. 3. Afflicted, injured, or visited with disease, plague, blindness, calamity, or judgment. 4. Of the heart, convicted, troubled, or reproved inwardly.

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First occurrence: Genesis 14:5

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1 Samuel 17:35
And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 17:35 · retained source text

And I went out after him, and smote him, and deliuered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

1 Samuel 17:49
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 17:49 · retained source text

And Dauid put his hande in his bag, and tooke thence a stone, and slang it, & smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunke into his forehead, and he fell vpon his face to the earth.

1 Samuel 17:50
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 17:50 · retained source text

So Dauid preuailed ouer the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him, but there was no sword in the hande of Dauid.

1611 marginal noteEcclus. 47.4. 1.Macc. 4.30.

1 Samuel 19:10
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 19:10 · retained source text

And Saul sought to smite Dauid euen to the wall with the iauelin: but hee slipt away out of Sauls presence, and he smote the iauelin into the wall: and Dauid fled, and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 22:19
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 22:19 · retained source text

And Nob the citie of the Priests smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses, and sheepe, with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 23:5
So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 23:5 · retained source text

So Dauid and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistins, and brought away their cattell, and smote them with a great slaughter: so Dauid saued the inhabitants of Keilah.

1 Samuel 24:5
And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 24:5 · retained source text

And it came to passe afterward, that Dauids heart smote him, because he had cut off Sauls skirt.

1 Samuel 25:38
And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 25:38 · retained source text

And it came to passe about ten dayes after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.

1 Samuel 27:9
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 27:9 · retained source text

And Dauid smote the land, and left neither man nor woman aliue, and tooke away the sheepe, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparell, and returned, and came to Achish.

1 Samuel 30:17
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 30:17 · retained source text

And Dauid smote them from the twilight, euen vnto the euening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, saue foure hundred yong men which rode vpon camels, and fled.

1611 marginal noteHeb. their morrow.

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