H1986 הָלַם
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 9 KJV occurrences
הָלַם
hâlam · haw-lam'
Definition
to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband
KJV Renderings
beat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 9)
- Judges 5:22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- Judges 5:26She 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.
- 1 Samuel 14:16And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
- Psalms 74:6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
- Psalms 141:5Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
- Proverbs 23:35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
- Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!