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מַעֲצָד

maʻătsâd · H4621 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Meanings

  1. axe, adze, chisel

    Exact meaning unsure, probably a wooden handle with a metal blade sharpened on one face, used for shaping timber

    Examples

    Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the peoples are futile; For it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

  2. tool of a blacksmith

    Exact meaning unsure, a tool used by a blacksmith to shape iron

    Examples

    Isaiah 44:12 The craftsman of iron shapes a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 1 word
גַּרְזֶן garzen · H1631 · axe, pickaxe
Hebrew noun denoting an ax used for cutting wood or as a tool/weapon; closely overlapping in sense with מַעֲצָד in its 'ax' meaning, though גַּרְזֶן is more common and may be the more general term.
In the other Testament 1 word
ἀξίνη axínē · G513 · axe
Greek noun denoting an ax, the standard translation equivalent for the Hebrew tool מַעֲצָד in its sense of 'ax' used for cutting or chopping.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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מַעֲצָד denotes an ax or cutting tool, an implement for shaping wood or metal.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4621. maatsad מַעֲצָד noun [masculine] axe; — Jer 10:3; in Isa 44:12 probably strike out…
H4621. maatsad
מַעֲצָד noun [masculine] axe; — Jer 10:3; in Isa 44:12 probably strike out (so Du CheHpt Skinner).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Tools2 occurrences

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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