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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Smiting

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smit

SMIT, sometimes used for smitten. [See Smite.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smite

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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smiter

SMI'TER, noun One who smites or strikes. I gave my back to the smiters. Isaiah 50:6.


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Smith

The Hebrews were not permitted by the Philistines in the days of Samuel to have a smith amongst them, lest they should make them swords and spears (1 Samuel 13:19). Thus the Philistines sought to make their conquest permanent (comp. 2 Kings 24:16).


Naves Topical Index
Smith

A worker in metals.

Tubal-Cain
Genesis 4:22

Bezaleel
Exodus 31:1-11

The Philistines
1 Samuel 13:19

Jewish, carried captive to Babylon
2 Kings 24:14; Jeremiah 24:1

The manufacturers of Idols
Isaiah 41:7; Isaiah 44:12

Genius of, from God
Exodus 31:3-5; Exodus 35:30-35; Isaiah 54:16


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Smith

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smith

SMITH, noun

1. Literally, the striker, the beater; hence, one who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as an iron-smith; gold-smith; silver-smith, etc. Nor yet the smith hath learn'd to form a sword.

2. He that makes or effects any thing.

Hence the name smith which, from the number of workmen employed in working metals in early ages, is supposed to be more common than any other.

SMITH, verb transitive To beat into shape; to forge. [Not in use.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smithcraft

SMITH'CR'AFT, noun [smith and craft.] The art of occupation of a smith. [Little used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smithery

SMITH'ERY, noun

1. The worshop of a smith.

2. Work done by a smith.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smithing

SMITH'ING, noun The act or art of working a mass of iron into the intended shape.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smithy

SMITH'Y, noun The shop of a smith. [I believe never used.]


Naves Topical Index
Smiting

See Assault and Battery
Assault and Battery


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smitt

SMITT, noun The finest of the clayey ore made up into balls, used for marking sheep.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smitten

SMITTEN, participle passive of smite, smit'n.

1. Struck; killed.

2. Affected with some passion; excited by beauty or someting impressive.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Smittle

SMIT'TLE, verb transitive [from smite.] To infect.