Bible Dictionaries
Palm

　　PALM.—The word occurs (Mark 14:65, John 18:22; cf. John 19:3) in the translationκολαφίζω) by the soldiers standing in front of Christ and the smiting with the palm by the servants of the high priests as they stood behind and challenged Him to tell from whom the blow had come. For all Christ prayed that the sin committed in ignorance might be forgiven (Luke 23:34). It is only by a Christian that affront can really be put upon Christ (Philippians 3:18).

　　G. M. Mackie.