'Beating' in the Bible

Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

The singers went on, the musicians after them,In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.

It is fixed:She is stripped, she is carried away,And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,Beating on their breasts.

And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.

But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking Him and beating Him,

And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened, began to return, beating their breasts.

And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

At once he took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to them; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;