מַגְזֵרָה
magzêrâh · H4037 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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axe
A heavy-bladed tool used for chopping wood
Examples2 Samuel 12:31 He also brought out the people who were in it, and put some to work at saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and made others serve at the brick works. And he did the same to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּרְזֶלiron 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- גַּרְזֶן garzen · H1631 · axe, pickaxe
- Hebrew גַּרְזֶן is another common word for 'axe' in Biblical Hebrew (Deut 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kgs 6:7; Isa 10:15), used interchangeably with מַגְזֵרָה to denote a cutting tool for trees or wood.
- קַרְדֹּם qardôm · H7134 · adze
- Hebrew קַרְדֹּם denotes an axe or similar cutting tool (Judg 9:48; 1 Sam 13:20-21; Ps 74:6), used for cutting wood or trees, semantically overlapping with מַגְזֵרָה as a tool for chopping.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀξίνη axínē · G513 · axe
- Greek ἀξίνη is the standard NT word for 'axe' (Matt 3:10; Luke 3:9), a direct translation equivalent for Hebrew מַגְזֵרָה, both denoting a tool for cutting/chopping wood or trees.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Tools001003001001017
- מַגְזֵרָה denotes an axe, as in 2 Samuel 12:31's instruments of labor including axes, placing it among crafted tools.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4037. magzerah [מַגְזֵרָה] noun feminine cutting instrument, axe — 2Sa 12:31 of David's…
[מַגְזֵרָה] noun feminine cutting instrument, axe — 2Sa 12:31 of David's treatment of captives, הַבַּרְזֶל וּבְמַגְזְרוֺת ֗֗֗ בַּמְּגֵרָה וַיָּשֶׂם.
גֵחֲזִי see below גַּיְא
גֹּ֫חִי see [ גּוֺחַ גִּיחַ,].
גחל (probably = kindle, burn).
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
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