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Fist

אֶגְרֹףStrong’s H0106

egroph (eg-roph)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Egroph is the Hebrew word usually translated “fist” and “fist of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:”
Exodus 21:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. Fist
How it's translated
  • with a fist 1
  • with a fist of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

אֶגְרֹף egroph · fist

fist

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “fist” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FIST, noun

    All definitions and other forms of “fist”

      FIST, verb transitive

      1. To strike with the fist
      2. To gripe with the fist

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.