To smite
הָלַםStrong’s H1986halam (ha-lam)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Halam is the Hebrew word usually translated “struck”, “let him strike me” and “beat me”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to smite, strike, hammer, strike down
How it's translated
- they struck 2
- and she struck 1
- let him strike me 1
- they beat me 1
- they have struck down 1
- struck down of 1
- a striker of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Judges 2
- Psalms 2
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- 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!
Hebrew dictionary
הָלַם halam · to smite
(Qal) to smite, strike, hammer, strike down
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “smite” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SMITE, verb transitive
preterit tense smote; participle passive smitten, smil. [This verb is the Latin mitto.]
- To strike; to throw, drive or force against, as the fist or hand, a stone or a weapon; to reach with a blow or a weapon; as, to smite one with the fist; to smite with a rod or with a stone. Matthew 5:39“Whoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also” Matthew 5:39
- To kill; to destroy the life of by beating or by weapons of any kind; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other engine.
- To blast; to destroy life; as by a stroke or by something sent. Exodus 9:15“The flax and the barley were smitten” Exodus 9:31
- To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
All definitions and other forms of “smite”
- To strike or affect with passion.
SMITE, verb intransitive
To strike; to collide. The heart melteth and the kness smite together. Nahum 2.
SMITE, noun
A blow.
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.