Thrust
מַדְקָרָהStrong’s H4094madqarah (mad-qa-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Madqarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like thrusts of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.”
Meaning
- Thrust, stab, piercing
How it's translated
- like thrusts of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַדְקָרָה madqarah · thrust
thrust, stab, piercing
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.]
- 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
- 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.
- To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- To intrude.
- 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.
- 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.