Definition

a smiter, i.e. a war club

Etymology

from H5310 (נָפַץ);

Word family

• נָפַץ nâphats

How the KJV renders it

• battle ax

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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.