H1986: הָלַם
hâlam · pronounced haw-lam' · “to smite”
Definition
to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband
KJV translates it as: beat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1986 is translated
- me ×2
- they struck ×1
- she struck ×1
- ! ×1
- they have struck down ×1
- those struck down of ×1
- a striker of ×1
Bible verses with H1986 (hâlam)
Hâlam appears in 8 verses.
- Judges 5:22
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- Judges 5:26
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
- Psalms 74:6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
- Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
- Proverbs 23:35
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
- Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
- Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.