Topic
Strike
25 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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- Genesis 18:11ISBE
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- Exodus 12:7ISBE
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
- Exodus 12:22ISBE
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
- Deuteronomy 17:8ISBE
¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy…
- Deuteronomy 21:5ISBE
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
- Judges 5:26ISBE
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.
- 2 Kings 5:11ISBE
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
- Esther 14:8ISBE
Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,
- Job 17:3ISBE
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
- Job 20:24ISBE
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- Psalms 110:5ISBE
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
- Proverbs 6:1ISBE
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
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- Proverbs 7:23 ISBE
- Proverbs 17:18 ISBE
- Proverbs 22:26 ISBE
- Proverbs 23:35 ISBE
- Isaiah 1:5 ISBE
- Jeremiah 5:3 ISBE
- Lamentations 4:9 ISBE
- Habakkuk 3:14 ISBE
- Tobit 11:11 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 10:3 ISBE
- Acts 27:17 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 3:3 ISBE
- Titus 1:7 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 31 references
strik: The verbs "to strike" and "to stroke" (latter not in English Versions) have the same derivation, and originally "strike" was the intrans, "stroke" the transitive form. "Strike" however, became used in both senses (always transitive in English Versions of the Bible), while "to stroke" took on the meaning "to, rub gently." But in the King James Version this last force still belonged sometimes to "strike" and is so found in 2Ki 5:11, "strike his hand over the place" (the Revised Version (British and American) "wave"), and perhaps Ex 12:7,22; Tobit 11:11 Otherwise AV's uses of the simple "strike" are modern, including "strike sail" (Ac 27:17; here and in /RAPC Tob 11:11 with an archaic preterite "strake," elsewhere "struck"). The Revised Version's "They lowered the gear" is a more precise translation, not a modernizing of the King James Version's English. The combination "to strike through," however, is not modern English, and was used by the King James Version as meaning either "to pierce" (Jud 5:26; Job 20:24; Pr 7:23; La 4:9), or, as an intensive, "to strike violently," "to crush" (Ps 110:5). The Revised Version (British and American) has attempted to distinguish only in Hab 3:14, "pierce," margin "smite." "Striking hands" is a common custom at the conclusion of a bargain (Additions to Esther 14:8), but in Job 17:3; Pr 6:1; 17:18; 22:26; the Revised Version margin 11:15, the ceremony is used technically for an agreement to be surety for another. Striking (the Revised Version margin "firing") stones to produce a fire is mentioned (2 Macc 10:3).
The past participle of "strike" is stricken (modern English "struck") (compare Pr 23:35; Jer 5:3; La 4:9). So Isa 1:5, "Why will ye be still stricken?" is equivalent to "Why should ye receive any more blows?" (compare 16:7; 53:4,8 margin). But in the phrase "stricken in age" (Ge 18:11, etc.) "strike" has an older meaning, "advance."
Striker is found in 1Ti 3:3; Tit 1:7 as a literal translation of plektes. A hot-tempered man, prone to physical outbursts, is meant. A stroke is simply a"blow," but in De 17:8; 21:5, "stroke" is used technically for "assault."
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.