'Beating' in the Bible

Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo'ash the Abiez'rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid'ianites.

As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, base fellows, beset the house round about, beating on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."

And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some.

And the men who held him mocked him, beating him;

And all the crowds who had come together to that sight, having seen the things that took place, returned, beating their breasts.

who, taking with him immediately soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. But they, seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul.

And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;

I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.