Dict: smith - ENGINE

smith:

ENGINE - E>@ - a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applied in ( kjv@2Chronicles:26:15) were designed to propel various missiles from the walls of the besieged town. One, with which the Hebrews were acquainted, was the battering ram, described in kjv@Ezekiel:26:9) and still more precisely in kjv@Ezekiel:4:2 kjv@Ezekiel:21:22)