Verses with the word stroke in the Apocrypha (5 verses):
2 Esdras 15:53
If thou hadst not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, and saying over their dead, when thou wast drunken,
Wisdom of Solomon 5:11
Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is to be found;
Sirach 27:25
Whoso casteth a stone on high casteth it on his own head; and a deceitful stroke shall make wounds.
Sirach 28:17
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.
2 Maccabees 14:43
But missing his stroke through haste, the multitude also rushing within the doors, he ran boldly up to the wall, and cast himself down manfully among the thickest of them.
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