et · mattock

What it means

et (אֵת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mattock”.

Hoe or other digging tool; elsewhere "plowshare" (Isaiah 2:4).

How to say it

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

1. An iron tool for digging the ground.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mattocks ×3
• mattock ×1
• plowshares ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• Isaiah×1
• Joel×1
• Micah×1

• 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.

• Isaiah 2:4

  And he will judge between the nations and decide for many peoples; and they will beat their swords into mattocks and their spears into pruning knives; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.

• Joel 3:10

  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”

• Micah 4:3

  And he will judge between many peoples and decide for mighty nations far away; and they will beat their swords into mattocks and their spears into pruning knives; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.