Quick Definition
battering-ram
Strong's Definition
a battering-ram
Derivation: from H6901 (קָבַל) in the sense of confronting (as standing opposite in order to receive);
KJV Usage: war.
TWOT Reference: 1980a
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קְבֹל (qo.vel) — battering-ram. something in front, attacking engine, siege-engine, battering-ram
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · קבל
Weapons | ≈ חֶרֶב · כַּר
battering-ram = a log or other long, heavy piece of wood covered on one end with metal; it was rammed by soldiers against the wall or gate of a city under siege; it sometimes had a point since the purpose of the ramming was to wedge a hole in the wall; others were blunt on the end; it could be held and swung by soldiers, or sometimes it was suspended by ropes from a moveable wooden tower.
noun m · קבל
Space
before, in front of = relation linking an event to the location right in front of an object
1 2KI 15:10 MT HOTTP-C NIV NJPS NRSV CEV | RSV NJB REB GNT ביבלעם "in Ibleam" = יִבְלְעָם
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[קְבֹל] n.[m.] something in front, spec. an attacking-engine
cstr., explained formerly as before the people
base