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Saw

Human-made Things in the Bible

The saw was a flat tool with a serrated edge, used for cutting objects in two. It could be made of hard stone such as flint or of metal and was sometimes fitted with a handle.

Pictures

Depiction of a carpenter on a mural in the burial chamber of the sculptors Nebamun and Ipuki
Depiction of a carpenter on a mural in the burial chamber of the sculptors Nebamun and IpukiEloquence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

πρίζω prizō (verb) · 1 verse

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Also in Carpenter

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Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema