HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6904
קְבֹל
qo.vel — battering-ram
something in front, attacking engine, siege-engine, battering-ram
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Battering-ram
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GREEK · G8096
κριός
krios — a ram
1. a ram , Lat. aries, (Homer), etc. 2. a battering-ram , Lat. aries, (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
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(Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for making breaches in walls. The end of it which was brought against the wall was shaped like a ram’s head.
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