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"The Lord saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands."

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  1. noun An encounter between opposing forces: an important battle in the Pacific campaign.
  2. noun Armed fighting; combat: wounded in battle.
  3. noun A match between two combatants: trial by battle.
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  • Shefket saved himself and his artillery by sending the latter to the rear as soon as the battle was at its height, and then, having posted a strong rear guard,—the insurgents having neglected to close the road behind them,—retreating with all possible speed, leaving the rear guard to be killed or taken, which it was to a man. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
  • And so that "this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S." —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • And all this army shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands Upon this the giant came near to meet David; and the youth made haste and took a stone out of his bag, and slung it with such skill and force that it smote Goliath in the forehead, and sank so deeply that the huge warrior fell lifeless to the ground. —  Children of the Old Testament
  • Henry, indignant at this implied threat, had harshly replied People do not ask for money on the eve of a battle He now, just as the battle was about to begin, approached Schomberg with a look of contrition on his face Colonel," he said, "I have hurt your feelings. —  Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French.
  • And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. —  The Ontario Readers Third Book
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fight ·  war ·  combat ·  attack ·  action ·  victory ·  campaign ·  game ·  storm ·  army ·  fire ·  contest

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battle:   battles ·  battled ·  battling
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English batel, from Old French bataille, from Vulgar Latin *battālia, from Late Latin battuālia, fighting and fencing exercises, from Latin battuere, to beat.

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  1. Early modern English also battel (a spelling still often used archaically, as in wager of battel), from Middle English batel, batelle, batayle, bataile, bataille, from Old French bataille = Provencal Portuguese batalha = Spanish batalla = Italian battaglia, from Late Latin battalia, battualia, the fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators, from battere, Latin battuere, batuere, beat, fight, fence: see batter and bate.
  2. from Middle English batailen, bataillen, from Old French batailler, from bataille, a battle: see battle, n.
  3. Early modern English also battel; from Middle English bataylen, batailen, from Old French bataillier, bateillier (= Provencal batalhar), fortify with battlements, from bataille, battlement, apparently identical with bataille, battle; but in later Old French the verb was merged in batillier, bastillier, from bastille, a fortress: see bastile, battle, and battlement, and cf. embattle, embattle.
  4. Appears first in the 16th century, in Scotch and North. English, also written battel, battil, battill, baittle, bettle, batwell, etc.; in form from bat, a verbal root appearing in the verb batten, improve, etc., + -el, -le, an adjective formative suffixed to verbal roots, as in brittle, fickle, etc.: see batten, and cf. the later adjectives battable and batful, apparently modifications of battle.
  5. Scots and North. English, also written battel, battil, etc., from the adjective Cf. batten, v.
  6. Freq. of bat (cf. batter), or perhaps a variant of beetle, v., simulating bat, v. (cf. bat, v.), or perhaps from battledore, 1, q. v.
 

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