Whip

A tool made of leather strips attached to a handle, used for hitting people or animals.

Whip
Whip (© Clyde L. Cheney - Wikimedia Commons) Whip, scourge

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Form, use in ancient daily life, and how translators render the term.

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1 Kings 12:11

Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”

John 2:15

So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

Matthew 27:26

So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.

All Scripture References (12)

1 Kings (2)
1 Kings 12:11

Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”

1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”

2 Chronicles (2)
2 Chronicles 10:11

Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”

2 Chronicles 10:14

and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”

Job (2)
Job 5:21

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

Job 9:23

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Proverbs (1)
Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

Isaiah (3)
Isaiah 10:26

And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.

Isaiah 28:15

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

Nahum (1)
Nahum 3:2

The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

John (1)
John 2:15

So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.