(, 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.<\/p>\n
a mallet or heavy war-club. Applied metaphorically (Jer. 51:20<\/span>) to Cyrus, God’s instrument in destroying Babylon.<\/p>\n BATTLE AXE.See Armour, 1 (f).<\/p>\n bat’l-ax. See ARMOR, ARMS, III, 1; AX (AXE).<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Battle-axe. Jer 51:20. See Maul.<\/p>\n 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 … Continue reading “Battle-axe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Battle Axe<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Battle-Axe<\/h2>\n
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Battle Axe<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Battle-axe<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"