Job 27:23
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Clap
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Nahum 3:19
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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מָחָא
mâchâʼ · maw-khaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to rub or strike the hands together (in exultation)
Strong's KJV usage: clap.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 98:8Strong's last: Isaiah 55:12
Open full H4222 profile →סָפַק
çâphaq · saw-fak'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to clap the hands (in token of compact, derision, grief, indignation, or punishment); by implication of satisfaction, to be enough; by implication of excess, to vomit
Strong's KJV usage: clap, smite, strike, suffice, wallow.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 27:23Strong's last: Lamentations 2:15
Open full H5606 profile →תָּקַע
tâqaʻ · taw-kah'
2 times translated as this KJV form68 total Strong's occurrences
to clatter, i.e. slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become bondsman by handclasping)
Strong's KJV usage: blow (a trumpet), cast, clap, fasten, pitch (tent), smite, sound, strike, × suretiship, thrust.
Strong's first: Psalms 47:1Strong's last: Nahum 3:19
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H8628
<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
H4222
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
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clap
CLAP, verb transitive
1. To strike with a quick motion, so as to make a noise by the collision; to strike with something broad, or having a flat surface; as, to clap the hands; to clap the wings.
2. To thrust or drive together; to shut hastily; followed by to; as, to clap to the door or gate.
3. To thrust or drive together; to put one thing to another by a hasty or sudden motion; followed by to, on or in; as, to clap the hand to the mouth; to clap spurs to a horse; to clap on a saddle.
4. To thrust; to put, place or send; followed by in, into, under, over, etc.; as, to clap one under the hatches; to clap one into Bedlam; to clap a board over a pit.
5. To applaud; to manifest approbation or praise by striking the hands together; as, to clap a performance on the stage.
6. To infect with venereal poison.
To clap up, to make or complete hastily; as, to clap up a peace.
To imprison hastily, or with little delay.
CLAP, verb intransitive
1. To move or drive together suddenly with noise.
The doors around me clapt.
2. To enter on with alacrity and briskness; to drive or thrust on; as we say to reapers or mowers, clap in, or clap to, that is, enter on the work, begin without delay, begin briskly.
3. To strike the hands together in applause.
Bid them clap
CLAP, noun
1. A driving together; a thrust and collision of bodies with noise, usually bodies with broad surfaces.
Give the door a clap
2. A sudden act or motion; a thrust.
Pay all debts at one clap
3. A burst of sound; a sudden explosion; as a clap of thunder.
4. An act of applause; a striking of hands to express approbation.
5. A venereal infection.
6. With falconers, the nether part of the beak of a hawk.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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