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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
smite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010
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Jesus Complains: All alone he protested against violence: “… why smitest thou me?”
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For should thou annoyest thy target, they might rise and smitest thee or, at the very leasteth, respond in the words of the netherworld by replying, Up Thine!
Damned to hell David 2005
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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
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And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
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And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
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Then she cried, “I will throw down a wand to thee, and if thou smitest them with it they will do me no harm.”
Household Tales 2003
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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
John 18. 1999
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And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
Exodus 2. 1999
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