Definition

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• beat
• cast forth
• clap
• give (wounds)
• go forward
• indeed
• kill
• make (slaughter)
• murderer
• punish
• slaughter
• slay(-er
• -ing)
• smite(-r
• strike
• be stricken
• (give) stripes
• surely
• wound

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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.