the Fourth Week of Advent
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Dictionaries
Beat
King James Dictionary
or BEAT, pret. beat pp. beat, beaten. L. batuo. See Abate.
1. To strike repeatedly to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause,just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12 . Deuteronomy 25
2. To strike an instrument of music to play on, as a drum.
3. To break, bruise,comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30
4. To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance or to hammer into any form to forge. Exodus 39
5. To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
6. To thresh to force out corn from the husk by blows.
7. To break, mix or agitate by beating as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
8. To dash or strike, as water to strike or brush, as wind.
9. To tread, as a path.
10. To overcome in a battle, contest or strife to vanquish or conquer as, one beats another at play.
Phrrhus beat the Carthaginians at sea.
11. To harass to exercise severely to overlabor as, to beat the brains about logic.
To beat down, to break, destroy, throw down, by beating or battering, as a wall.
Also, to press down or lay flat, as by treading, by a current of water, by violent wind, &c.
Also, to lower the price by importunity or argument.
Also, to depress or crush as, to bet down opposition.
Also, to sink or lessen the price or value.
Usury beats down the price of land.
To beat back, to compel to retire or return.
To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition of instruction.
To beat up, to attack suddenly to alarm or disturb as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.
To beat the wing, to flutter to move with fluttering agitation.
To beat off, to repel or drive back.
To beat the hoof, to walk to go on foot.
To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
In the manerge, a horse beats the dust, when at each motion he does not take in ground enough with his fore legs and at curvets, when he does them too precipitately, or too low. He beats upon a walk, when he walks too short.
To beat out, to extend by hammering. In popular use, to be beat out, is to be extremely fatigued to have the strength exhausted by labor or exertion.
BEAT, To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats or to throb, as the heart beats.
1. To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, &c. as, the tempest beats against the house.
2. To knock at a door. Judges 19 .
3. To fluctuate to be in agitation.
To beat about, to try to find to search by various means or ways.
To beat upon, to act upon with violence.
Also, to speak frequently to enforce by repetition.
To beat up for soldiers,is to go about to enlist men into the army.
In seamanship, to beat, is to make progress against the direction of the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
With hunters, a stag beats up and down, when he runs first one way and then another.
BEAT, n. A stroke a striking a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.
1. A pulsation as the beat of the pulse.
2. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
3. A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.
In the military art, the beat of drum, is a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes as to regulate a march to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack or retreat, &c.
The beat of a watch or clock, is the stroke made by the fangs or pallets of the spindle of the balance, or of the pads in a royal pendulum.
BEAT
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Beat'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/beat.html.
