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Targe [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

T'ARGE , for target, is obsolete.

Targe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A shield or target.

Target [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A shield or buckler of a small kind, used as a defensive weapon in war.

2. A mark for the artillery to fire at in their practice.

Target [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

2. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

3. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.

4. The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

5. A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.

Targeted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Furnished or armed with a target.

Targeted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.

Targeteer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One armed with a target.

Targeteer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who is armed with a target or shield.

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4 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Targe”

1 Samuel 17:6

And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.

and he had armor of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.

1 Samuel 20:20

And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.

1 Kings 10:16

And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

2 Chronicles 9:15

And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.

2 Chronicles 14:8

And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.

Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.

Job 7:20

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

Job 16:12

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

Lamentations 3:12

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.