# הָלַם (halam)

Israeli respelling: ha-lam. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1986. 9 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: beat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/halam-h1986

## Occurrences

- [Judges 5:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/22) — Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- [Judges 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, whe…
- [1 Samuel 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/6) — But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
- [Psalms 141:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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: fo…
- [Proverbs 23:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 a…
- [Isaiah 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ar…
- [Isaiah 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 41:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sode…