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Knock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. nok. A blow; a stroke with something thick or heavy.

2. A stroke on a door, intended as a request for admittance; a rap.

Knock [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. nok.

2. To strike or beat with something thick or heavy; as, to knock with a club or with the fist; to knock at the door. We never use this word to express beating with a small stick or whip.

3. To drive or be driven against; to strike against; to clash; as when one heavy body knocks against another.

4. To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge to be conquered; an expression borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table, when conquered.

Knock [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. nok. To strike; to drive against; as, to knock the head against a post.

2. To strike a door for admittance; to rap.

3. To knock down, to strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an ox.

4. To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains.

5. To knock up, to arouse by knocking. In popular use, to beat out; to fatigue till unable to do more.

6. To knock off, to force off by beating. At auctions, to assign to a bidder by a blow on the counter.

7. To knock on the head, to kill by a blow or by blows.

Knock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.

Knock [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.

Knock [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.

2. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

Knock-knee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Knock-kneed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.

Knockdown [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument.

Knockdown [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.

Knocked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Knocker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. nok'er. One that knocks.

2. An instrument or kind of hammer, fastened to a door to be used in seeking for admittance.

Knocker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.

Knocking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

nok'ing. A beating; a rap.

Knocking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

nok'ing. Beating; striking.

Knocking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A beating; a rap; a series of raps.

Knocking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Knockings [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

Knockstone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A block upon which ore is broken up.

King James Bible KJV Bible

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11 KJV and 13 BSB verses contain “knock”

Exodus 21:27

And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

Song of Solomon 5:2

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Daniel 5:6

Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

Matthew 7:7

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:8

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Luke 11:9

And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Luke 11:10

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Luke 12:36

And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Luke 13:25

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

Acts 12:13

And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.

He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

Acts 12:16

But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.

But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.

Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

Judith 14:14

Then went in Bagoas, and knocked at the door of the tent; for he thought that he had slept with Judith.