Strong's Hebrew · H1986
הָלַם
hâlam · haw-lam'
Definitionto strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagebeat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).
Occurrences9 in the KJV · 9 verses
הָלַם in Scripture
Judges 5:22
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
Judges 5:26
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen' s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
1 Samuel 14:16
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another .
Psalms 74:6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Proverbs 23:35
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.