Bolt
מִנְעָלStrong’s H4515minal (min-al)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Minal is the Hebrew word usually translated “bolts your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
Meaning
- Shoe
How it's translated
- bolts your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מִנְעָל minal · bolt
shoe
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bolt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOLT,noun
[Latin pello.]
- An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft.
- A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, etc.
- A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt
- The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas.
All definitions and other forms of “bolt”
BOLT, verb transitive
To fasten or secure with a bolt or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else.
- To fasten; to shackle; to restrain.
- To blurt out; to utter or throw out precipitately.
- To sift or separate bran from flour.
- Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys.
- To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. 'Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.' [Inelegant.]
- To purify; to purge. [Unusual.]
- To discuss or argue; as at Gray's inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers.
BOLT, verb intransitive
To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den.
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.