מַחֲרֵשָׁה
macharesha · plowshare, pick
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4281 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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macharesha (מַחֲרֵשָׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plowshare, pick”.
A farming tool, perhaps a hoe, a pick or a plowshare. It appears only in 1 Samuel 13:20-21.
How to say it
ma·cha·re·sha
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
- A farming iron: the blade of a plow or a digging tool.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hoe ×1
- plowshares ×1
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines to sharpen each his plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his hoe.
- 1 Samuel 13:21
And the price was a pim for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and for the three-pronged forks and for the axes, and for setting straight the goad.