Battle-axe. Jer_51:20. See Maul.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bat?'l-ax. See ARMOR, ARMS, III, 1; AX (AXE).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Battle-axe
(מִפֵּוֹ, mappets', breaker in pieces; Sept. and Vulg. render as a verb, διασκορπίζεις), a mallet or heavy war-club (Jer_51:20; comp. the cognate מֵפַיוֹ, mephits', maul, Pro_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.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.