Study it in the app“Shall the axe boast over the one who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against the one who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it, as if a staff should lift one who is not wood!”
Shall the axeהַגַּרְזֶןboastהֲיִתְפָּאֵרover the one who chopsעַל הַחֹצֵבwith it?בּוֹOrאִםshall the sawהַמַּשּׂוֹרmagnify itselfיִתְגַּדֵּלagainst the one who wields it?עַל מְנִיפוֹAs ifכְּa rodשֵׁבֶטshould wieldהָנִיףthose who lift it,וְ מְרִימָיוas ifכְּa staffמַטֶּהshould liftהָרִיםone who is notלֹאwood!עֵץ
axe
Axe.
Where else “garzen” appearsboast
To boast against the one who uses you, as if the tool were more than its owner.
Where else “yitpaer” appearscut to pieces
To cut, split, cut to pieces.
Where else “chotsev” appearssaw
A saw.
Where else “masor” appearsexalt oneself
To exalt oneself proudly.
Where else “yitgadel” appearswield
To brandish or swing something, like a hand.
Where else “menif” appearsrod
A stick for guiding or correcting; the king's sign of power.
Where else “shevet” appearslift up
To put on high: to raise the voice, praise God, or be God lifting up the lowly.
Where else “merimay” appearsstaff
A straight stick used for support, as a weapon or as a sign of authority.
Where else “mate” appearswood
What is taken from a cut tree: firewood, board, rod or timber.
Where else “ets” appears14And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers abandoned eggs, all the earth I have gathered; and there was no one who moved a wing, or opened a mouth, or chirped.”
15 · This verse (above)
16Therefore the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot, will send leanness among his stout ones, and under his glory a burning will burn like the burning of fire.
