Definition

to pound, i.e. (figuratively) to inflict with (calamity)

Etymology

apparently another form of G4111 (πλάσσω) (through the idea of flattening out);

Word family

• πλάσσω plássō

How the KJV renders it

• smite

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.