Battering-Ram

Type Object Hebrew חֶרֶב · כַּר · קְבֹל

A long, heavy piece of wood covered with metal on one end, used by soldiers to break walls or gates during a siege.

A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram attacks the walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange arrows (Nimrud, about 865-860 BC; British Museum)
A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram attacks the walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange arrows (Nimrud, about 865–860 BC; British Museum) (Chris0, British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Battering ram

About Battering-Ram

An ancient military machine with a heavy wooden beam used to batter down gates or walls. Some battering rams had a ram head made of iron at the end of the beam.

See Armor and Weapons.

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Key References

Isaiah 29:3

I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

Ezekiel 4:2

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

Ezekiel 26:9

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

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Ezekiel (3)
Ezekiel 4:2

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

Ezekiel 21:27

A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’

Ezekiel 26:9

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.