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'Smote' in the Bible

Then Judah went up, and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they struck down in defeat ten thousand men at Bezek.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsTens Of ThousandsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Then they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they struck down in defeat the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Then the sons of Judah fought against [Jebusite] Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

Verse ConceptsConquestBurning Jerusalem

So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go free.

And Eglon gathered to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck down Israel [in defeat], and they took possession of the City of Palm Trees (Jericho).

Verse ConceptsAmalekitesenemies, of Israel and JudahAmmonitesDefeat Of God's People

“She reached out her [left] hand for the tent peg,And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer.Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head;And she shattered and pierced his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

Gideon went up by the route of those who lived in tents to the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked their camp when the camp was unsuspecting.

Verse ConceptsNomadsSecurity

So he took his people and divided them into three companies, and set an ambush in the field; and he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. And he rose up against them and struck them down.

Verse ConceptsThree GroupsAmbush

And from Aroer to the entrance of Minnith he struck them, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim (brook by the vineyard), with a very great defeat. So the Ammonites were subdued and humbled before the Israelites.

Verse ConceptsConquestTwentyThose Subjected To People

Then Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and fought with [the tribe of] Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim, in the midst of [the tribes of] Ephraim and Manasseh.”

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingFighting One AnotherReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Then he struck them without mercy, a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Verse ConceptsCavesThighs

They took the [idolatrous] things that Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a people who were quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.

Verse ConceptsConflagrationsBurning CitiesMen Of Peace

Then the men in ambush quickly rushed and attacked Gibeah; and the men in ambush also deployed and struck the entire city with the edge of the sword.

The men of Israel turned back against [the tribe of] the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city [of Gibeah] and the livestock and all that they found. They also set on fire all the [surrounding] towns which they found.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesBoth Men And Animals Killed

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Root Form
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מחא 
M@cha' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

מחק 
Machaq 
Usage: 1

מכּה מכּה 
Makkah 
Usage: 48

נקשׁ 
N@qash (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1