מַאֲכֶלֶת
maachelet · knife
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3979 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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maachelet (מַאֲכֶלֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “knife”.
Especially a large one used for slaughtering or cutting up meat.
How to say it
ma·a·che·let
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 large sharp knife, used to slaughter animals.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- knife ×3
- are knives ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 22:6
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them went together.
- Genesis 22:10
Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
- Judges 19:29
And he came to his house and took the knife, and took hold of his concubine and cut her into pieces by her bones into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
- Proverbs 30:14
A generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaw teeth are knives, to devour the afflicted from the earth, and the needy from among mankind.