Artillery
Bible Usage:
- artillery used once.
- Bible Reference: 1 Samuel 20:40
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- 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:
- H3627 Used 1 time
1 Samuel 20:40, (Heb. keli, meaning "apparatus;" here meaning collectively any missile weapons, as arrows and lances. In Revised Version, "weapons"). This word is derived from the Latin artillaria = equipment of war.
General references
1 Samuel 20:40
Arms
ARTIL'LERY, noun This word has no plural.
1. In a general sense, offensive weapons of war. Hence it was formerly used for bows and arrows.
And Jonathan gave his artillery to his lad. 1 Samuel 20:40.
But in present usage, appropriately,
2. Canon; great guns; ordinance, including guns, mortars and grenades, with their furniture of carriages, balls, bombs and shot of all kinds.
3. In a more extended sense, the word includes powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses that belong to a train of artillery
4. The men who manage cannon and mortars, including matrosses, gunners, bombardiers, cannoniers, or by whatever name they are called, with the officers, engineers and persons who supply the artillery with implements and materials.
Bible Usage:
- artillery used once.
- Bible Reference: 1 Samuel 20:40
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- 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:
- H3627 Used 1 time