Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet. 2. (v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top. 3. (v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy. 4. (v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to. 5. (v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. 6. (v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like. 7. (v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. 8. (v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over. 9. (v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle. 10. (v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like. 11. (v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. 12. (v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff. 13. (v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip. 14. (v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner. 15. (n.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod. 16. (n.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip. 17. (n.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread. 18. (n.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft. 19. (n.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies. 20. (n.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a) 21. (n.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in. 22. (n.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed. 23. (n.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.

Multi-Version Concordance Whip (7 Occurrences) John 2:15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables. (WEB WEY BBE YLT RSV NIV) 1 Corinthians 4:21 Which shall it be? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit? (See NIV) Deuteronomy 22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; (See RSV) Joshua 23:13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you. (BBE NAS NIV) Proverbs 26:3 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools! (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 10:26 And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians. (BBE NIV) Nahum 3:2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)