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Thrust

מַדְחֵפָהStrong’s H4073

medachphah (me-dach-phah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Medachphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “blows”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.”
Psalms 140:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Push, thrust
How it's translated
  • for blows 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מַדְחֵפָה medachphah · thrust

    push, thrust

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    THRUST, verb transitive

    preterit tense and participle passive thrust [Latin trudo, trusum, trusito.]

    1. To push or drive with force; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.“Neither shall one thrust another” Joel 2:8
    2. To drive; to force; to impel.“THRUST in thy sickle and reap” Revelation 14:15
    All definitions and other forms of “thrust”

      THRUST, verb intransitive

      To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

      1. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
      2. To intrude.
      3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on.

      THRUST, noun

      A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a word much used in fencing.

      1. Attack; assault.

      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.