Buffet
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Mark 14:65
- Last Reference: 2 Corinthians 12:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G2852 Used 2 times
BUFF'ET, noun A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses, it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people, by whom it is pronounced bofat.
BUFF'ET, noun A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.
BUFF'ET, verb transitive To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.
They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.
1. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
BUFF'ET, verb intransitive To exercise or play at boxing.
BUFF'ETED, participle passive Struck; beaten. l Cor.4.11. l Pet.2.20.
BUFF'ETER, noun One who buffets; a boxer.
BUFF'ETING, participle present tense Striking with the hand; boxing; contending against.
BUFF'ETING, noun A striking with the hand.
1. Contention; attack; opposition.
He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but formed for duration, and fitted to endure the buffetings of the rudest storm.