Battle-axe
Battle-axe
(, mappets’, breaker in pieces; Sept. and Vulg. render as a verb, ), a mallet or heavy war-club (Jer 51:20; comp. the cognate , mephits’, maul, Pro 25:18). The ancient Egyptian battle-axes were of two kinds, both answering to this description, being adapted to inflict a severe blow by the weight no less than to cut with the edge. Each was a broad-axe with a semicircular blade, that of the one being usually in two segments both attached to the handle as a back; and that of the other projecting beyond the handle, with a large ball attached to give it momentum (see figs. 12 and 7 in the first series of cuts under the art. ARMOR SEE ARMOR , and compare Wilkinson’s Anc. Eg. 1:362, 363, abridgm.). SEE AXE; SEE MAUL.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Battle-axe
a mallet or heavy war-club. Applied metaphorically (Jer. 51:20) to Cyrus, God’s instrument in destroying Babylon.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Battle Axe
BATTLE AXE.See Armour, 1 (f).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Battle-Axe
bat’l-ax. See ARMOR, ARMS, III, 1; AX (AXE).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Battle Axe
Large hammer or axe, at the end of a long handle, a formidable ancient weapon. Jer 51:20. It is referred metaphorically to Jacob as God’s weapon to break the nations into pieces.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Battle-axe
Battle-axe. Jer 51:20. See Maul.