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And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Read in context →And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Read in context →14 occurrences in 13 verses.
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nâkâh · naw-kaw'
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), × go forward, × indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, × surely, wound.
Strong's first: Genesis 8:21Strong's last: Malachi 4:6
Open full H5221 profile →nâgaph · naw-gaf'
to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)
Strong's KJV usage: beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite (down), strike, stumble, × surely, put to the worse.
Strong's first: Exodus 8:2Strong's last: Zechariah 14:18
Open full H5062 profile →patássō · pat-as'-so
to knock (gently or with a weapon or fatally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--smite, strike.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:31Strong's last: Revelation 19:15
Open full G3960 profile →týptō · toop'-to
to "thump", i.e. cudgel or pummel (properly, with a stick or bastinado), but in any case by repeated blows; thus differing from G3817 and G3960, which denote a (usually single) blow with the hand or any instrument, or G4141 with the fist (or a hammer), or G4474 with the palm; as well as from G5177, an accidental collision); by implication, to punish; figuratively, to offend (the conscience)
Strong's KJV usage: :--beat, smite, strike, wound.
Strong's first: Matthew 24:49Strong's last: Acts 23:3
Open full G5180 profile →mâchats · maw-khats'
to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy
Strong's KJV usage: dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.
Strong's first: Numbers 24:17Strong's last: Deuteronomy 33:11
Open full H4272 profile →dérō · der'-o
properly, to flay, i.e. (by implication) to scourge, or (by analogy) to thrash
Strong's KJV usage: :--beat, smite.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:20Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:20
Open full G1194 profile →rhapízō · hrap-id'-zo
to slap
Strong's KJV usage: :--smite (with the palm of the hand).
Strong's first: Matthew 5:39Strong's last: Matthew 5:39
Open full G4474 profile →hâlam · haw-lam'
to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband
Strong's KJV usage: beat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).
Strong's first: Psalms 141:5Strong's last: Psalms 141:5
Open full H1986 profile →kâthath · kaw-thath'
to bruise or violently strike
Strong's KJV usage: beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp. l
Strong's first: Zechariah 11:6Strong's last: Zechariah 11:6
Open full H3807 profile →nâphal · naw-fal'
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.
Strong's first: Exodus 21:27Strong's last: Exodus 21:27
Open full H5307 profile →çâphaq · saw-fak'
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.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 21:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:12
Open full H5606 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
125 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
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SMITE, verb transitive preterit tense smote; participle passive smitten, smil. [This verb is the Latin mitto.]
1. To strike; to throw, drive or force against, as the fist or hand, a stone or a weapon; to reach with a blow or a weapon; as, to smite one with the fist; to smite with a rod or with a stone. Whoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39.
2. To kill; to destroy the life of by beating or by weapons of any kind; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other engine. David smote Goliath with a sling and a stone. The Philistines were often smitten with great slaughter. [This word, like slay, usually or always signification, that of beating, striking, the primitive mode of killing. We never apply it to the destruction of life by poison, by accident or by legal execution.]
3. To blast; to destroy life; as by a stroke or by something sent. The flax and the barley were smitten. Exodus 9:15.
4. To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
5. To strike or affect with passion. See what the charms that smite the simple heart. Smit with the love of sister arts we came.
TO smite WITH THE TONGUE, to reproach or upbraid. Jeremiah 18:18.
SMITE, verb intransitive To strike; to collide. The heart melteth and the kness smite together. Nahum 2.
SMITE, noun A blow.
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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