an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits ( Proverbs 25:18 ), properly a war-club.
A club or mallet.A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a MAUL, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. ( Proverbs 25:18 )
(i.e. a hammer), a sort of battleaxe or hammer, used as an implement of war. ( Proverbs 1:1 25:18 )
MAUL
mol (mephits, literally, "a breaker," "a club," "mace," "mattock"):
A smashing weapon like the oriental war-club or the clubs always carried by the shepherds of Lebanon (Proverbs 25:18; compare Jeremiah 51:20 margin).
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