Smote meaning

The nobleman smote his breast.

A plague smote the city, and when it was removed to Ekron, pestilence followed in its wake.

One smote the threshold with an axe, another with a pestle, the third swept it with a broom - three symbols of culture (for trees were hewn down with the axe, grain pounded with the pestle, and the fruits of the field swept up with the broom) which Silvanus could not endure.