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Strike
King James Dictionary
or STRIKE, pret. struck pp. struck and stricken but struck is in the most common use. Strook is wholly obsolete. G., to pass, move or ramble, to depart, to touch, to stroke, to glide or glance over, to lower or strike, as sails, to curry L., to sweep together, to spread, as a plaster, to play on a violin, to card, as wool, to strike or whip, as with a rod a stroke, stripe or lash.
1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or an instrument to give a blow to, either with the open hand, the fist, a stick, club or whip, or with a pointed instrument, or with a ball or an arrow discharged. An arrow struck the shield a ball strikes a ship between wind and water.
He at Philippi kept his sword een like a dancer, while I struck the lean and wrinkled Cassius.
2. To dash to throw with a quick motion.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts. Exodus 12 .
3. To stamp to impress to coin as, to strike coin at the mint to strike dollars or sovereigns also, to print as, to strike five hundred copies of a book.
4. To thrust in to cause to enter or penetrate as, a tree strikes its root deep.
5. To punish to afflict as smite is also used.
To punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity. Proverbs 17 .
6. To cause to sound to notify by sound as, the clock strikes twelve the drums strike up a march.
7. To run upon to be stranded. The ship struck at twelve, and remained fast.
8. To pass with a quick or strong effect to dart to penetrate.
Now and then a beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
9. To lower a flag or colors in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of the ship to an enemy.
10. To break forth as, to strike into reputation. Not in use.
To strike in, to enter suddenly also, to recede from the surface, as an eruption to disappear.
To strike in with, to conform to to suit itself to to join with at once.
To strike out, to wander to make a sudden excursion as, to strike out into an irregular course of life.
To strike, among workmen in manufactories, in England, is to quit work I a body or by combination, in order to compel their employers to raise their wages.
STRIKE, n.
1. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt and the like, for scraping off what is above the level of the top.
2. A bushel four pecks. Local.
3. A measure of four bushels or half a quarter. Local.
Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. Local.
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 'Strike'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/strike.html.
