International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BOLTbolt (na`al, "to bind up"): The ancient Hebrews had fastenings of wood or iron for the doors of houses (2 Samuel 13:17, 18 Songs 5:5), city gates (Nehemiah 3:3, 6, 13-15), prison doors, etc. (Isaiah 45:2), which were in the form of bolts. These were sometimes pushed back from within; but there were others which, by means of a key, could be unfastened and pushed back from without (Judges 3:23). These were almost the only form of locks known.
See BAR; LOCKS.
In Habakkuk 3:5, resheph (a poetic word for "flame") is rendered "fiery bolts" (the King James Version "burning coals"). It seems to denote "the fiery bolts, by which Yahweh was imagined to produce pestilence or fever" (Driver, Deuteronomy, 367).
M. O. Evans
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
2. (n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.
3. (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
4. (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
5. (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
6. (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
7. (n.) A bundle, as of osiers.
8. (v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
9. (v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
10. (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
11. (v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
12. (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
13. (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
14. (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
15. (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
16. (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
17. (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
18. (adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
19. (n.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
20. (n.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
21. (n.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
22. (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
23. (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
24. (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
25. (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
Strong's Hebrew
4514. manul -- a bolt... a
bolt. Transliteration: manul or manul Phonetic Spelling: (man-ool') Short Definition:
bolts.
... lock. Or maniul {man-ool'}; from na'al; a
bolt -- lock.
... /hebrew/4514.htm - 6k 5274. na'al -- to bar, bolt, lock
... << 5273b, 5274. na'al. 5274a >>. to bar, bolt, lock. Transliteration: na'al Phonetic
Spelling: (naw-al') Short Definition: bolt. bolt, enclose, lock, shoe, shut ...
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4515. minal -- a bolt
... a bolt. Transliteration: minal Phonetic Spelling: (man-awl') Short Definition: locks.
Word Origin from naal Definition a bolt NASB Word Usage locks (1). shoe. ...
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5274a. naal -- to bar, bolt, lock
... naal. 5274b >>. to bar, bolt, lock. Transliteration: naal Short Definition: locked. ...
root Definition to bar, bolt, lock NASB Word Usage lock (1), locked (5). ...
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1280. beriach -- a bar
... Word Origin from barach Definition a bar NASB Word Usage bar (3), bars (36),
bolt (1). bar, fugitive. From barach; a bolt -- bar, fugitive. ...
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1272. barach -- to go through, flee
... A primitive root; to bolt, ie Figuratively, to flee suddenly -- chase (away); drive
away, fain, flee (away), put to flight, make haste, reach, run away, shoot. ...
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270. achaz -- to grasp, take hold, take possession
... root Definition to grasp, take hold, take possession NASB Word Usage acquire property
(1), acquired property (1), attached (1), bolt (1), catch (1), caught (3 ...
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3709. kaph -- hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot) ...
... From kaphaph; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole,
and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a ...
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2671. chets -- arrow
... From chatsats; properly, a piercer, ie An arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively,
(of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for ets) the shaft of a spear ...
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