Battle
כִּידוֹרStrong’s H3593kidor (ki-dor)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kidor is the Hebrew word usually translated “battle”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.”
Meaning
- Attack, onslaught, onset
How it's translated
- for battle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כִּידוֹר kidor · battle
attack, onslaught, onset
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “battle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAT'TLE, noun
[See Beat.]
Owen supposes the Welsh batel, to be from tel, tight, stretched, compact, and the word primarily to have expressed the drawing of the bow. This is probably an error. The first battles of men were with clubs, or some weapons used in beating, striking. Hence the club of Hercules. And although the moderns use different weapons, still a battle is some mode of beating or striking.]
- A fight, or encounter between enemies, or opposing armies; an engagement.
- A body of forces, or division of an army.
All definitions and other forms of “battle”
BAT'TLE, verb intransitive
To join in battle; to contend in fight; sometimes with it; as, to battle it.
BAT'TLE, verb transitive
To cover with armed force.
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.