Battle-Axe

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Battle-axe.  Jeremiah 51:20. See Maul .

Holman Bible Dictionary

Arms And Armor

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Jeremiah 51:20

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( מִפֵּוֹ , Mappets', Breaker in pieces; Sept. and Vulg. render as a verb, Διασκορπίζεις ) , a Mallet or heavy war-club ( Jeremiah 51:20; comp. the cognate מֵפַיוֹ , Mephits', "maul,"  Proverbs 25:18). The ancient Egyptian battle-axes were of two kinds, both answering to this description, being adapted to inflict a severe blow by the weight no less than to cut with the edge. Each was a broad-axe with a semicircular blade, that of the one being usually in two segments both attached to the handle as a back; and that of the other projecting beyond the handle, with a large ball attached to give it momentum (see figs. 12 and 7 in the first series of cuts under the art. ARMOR (See Armor) , and compare Wilkinson's Anc. Eg. 1:362, 363, abridgm.). (See Axe); (See Maul).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bat ´' l - ax . See Armor , Arms , III, 1; Ax (AXE).