Definition

a smiter, i.e. pugnacious (quarrelsome)

Etymology

from G4141 (πλήσσω);

Word family

• πλήσσω plḗssō

How the KJV renders it

• striker

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.