מַאֲכֶלֶת
maʼăkeleth · H3979 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- KnifeEating utensils7 verses
Meanings
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knife
A small blade with a handle, used for cutting meat and other food and associated with aggression
ExamplesGenesis 22:6 And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:10 And Abraham reached out with his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Judges 19:29 When he entered his house, he took a knife and seized his concubine, and cut her in twelve pieces, limb by limb. Then he sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 3
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְתַלְּעָהfangs 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- μάχαιρα máchaira · G3162 · sword, dagger, war
- Greek μάχαιρα renders Hebrew מַאֲכֶלֶת in contexts where both denote a knife used for cutting or slaughter, with μάχαιρα carrying broader semantic range (including sword/weapon senses) beyond the Hebrew term's more specific cultic/slaughter knife usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מַאֲכֶלֶת denotes a knife, as in Genesis 22:6's Abraham who "took in his hand the fire and the knife" to bind Isaac, placing it among crafted cutting tools.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3979. maakeleth מַאֲכֶ֫לֶת noun feminine knife (as cutting instrum., or instrument for…
מַאֲכֶ֫לֶת noun feminine knife (as cutting instrum., or instrument for dividing, making small, compare S[iegfrom]ThLZ.Nov.17. '88) Jdg 19:29; מַאֲכֶ֑לֶת Gen 22:6, Gen 22:10, plural מַאֲכָלוֺת Pro 30:14.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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