לָטַשׁ
latash · sharpen, forge
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3913 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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latash (לָטַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sharpen, forge”.
Sharpen, hammer out, forge.
How to say it
la·tash
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Put an edge on; work metal with a hammer.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sharpen ×2
- forger ×1
- sharpened ×1
- sharpens ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 4:22
And Zillah, she also, gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of every tool of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
- 1 Samuel 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines to sharpen each his plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his hoe.
- Job 16:9
His anger tears and bears a grudge against me; he gnashes his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes at me.
- Psalms 7:12
If he does not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready.
- Psalms 52:2
Calamities your tongue devises, like a razor sharpened, working deceit.