Strong's #1986: halam (pronounced haw-lam')

a primitive root; to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband:--beat (down), break (down), overcome, smite (with the hammer).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

hâlam

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Judges 5:22: "Then were the horses' hooves broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones."
Judges 5:26: "to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced"
1 Samuel 14:16: "the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down"
Psalms 74:6: "But now they break down the carved work with axes and hammers."
Psalms 141:5: "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break"
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?"
Isaiah 16:8: "of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer,"
Isaiah 28:1: "the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!"
Isaiah 41:7: "and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready"