KJV dictionary & concordance
One disposed to strike or inflict blows; a violent person.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Timothy 3:3
Complete exact-word concordance
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Not giuen to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous;
1611 marginal noteOr, not ready to quarell and offer wrong, as one in wine.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
For a Bishop must be blameles, as the steward of God: not selfewilled, not soone angry, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,
1611 marginal note1.Tim. 3.6.
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1 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
One that strikes. In Scripture, a quarrelsome man.
