Hâlam — H1986

Definition

verb

to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband

1. (Qal) to smite, strike, hammer, strike down

Usually translated as

break, overcome, smite, beat

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• apokóptō (G609)
• elaúnō (G1643)
• empaízō (G1702)
• katapatéō (G2662)
• methýskō (G3182)
• paideúō (G3811)

Occurrences

Hâlam occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (2), 1 Samuel (1), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (3)

• Judges 5:22 — Then were the horsehoofs broken (הָלְמ֖וּ) 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 (וְהָלְמָ֤ה) 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 (יַהֲלֹמֽוּן) the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
• Psalms 141:5 — Let the righteous smite (יֶֽהֶלְמֵֽנִי) 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 (הֲלָמ֗וּנִי) 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 (הָלְמ֣וּ) 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 (הֲל֥וּמֵי) with wine!
• Isaiah 41:7 — So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote (ה֣וֹלֶם) the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.