Whip
שׁוֹטStrong’s H7752shot
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shot is the Hebrew word usually translated “whips”, “scourge” and “whip”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
Meaning
- Scourge, whipscourge (for chastisement) · whip (for horse)
How it's translated
- with whips 4
- a scourge 3
- a whip 3
- in whip of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Job 2
- Proverbs 1
- Nahum 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 12:14And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- 2 Chronicles 10:11For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- 2 Chronicles 10:14And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- Job 5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
- Job 9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
- Proverbs 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוֹט shot · whip
1) scourge, whip 1a) scourge (for chastisement) 1a1) of national judgment (fig) 1b) whip (for horse)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHIP, verb transitive
[Latin, a sweeping throw or thrust.]
- To strike with a lash or sweeping cord; as, to whip a horse.
- To sew slightly.
- To drive with lashes; as, to whip a top.
- To punish with the whip; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
All definitions and other forms of “whip”
- To lash with sarcasm.
- To strike; to thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. [Not in use int he United States.]
WHIP, verb intransitive
To move nimbly; to start suddenly and run; or to turn and run; as, the boy whipped away in an instant; he whipped round the corner; he whipped into the house, and was out of wight in a moment.
WHIP, noun
- An instrument for driving horses or other teams, or for correction, consisting of a lash tied to a handle or rod.
- In ships, a small tackle, used to hoist light bodies.
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.