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# כֵּילָף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3597

**axe** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

axe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3597/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֵּילַפּוֹת: axe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3597/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] axe (loan-word (cf. Frä74) from Assyrian kalappatu v. DlHWB 333)—בְּכַשִּׁיל וְכ׳ יַהֲלֹמ֑וּן ψ 74:6 (‖ קַרְדֻּמּוֹת v 5).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: crowbars (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 74:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.6/#tree)

וְ֭עַתָּה פִּתּוּחֶ֣יהָ יָּ֑חַד בְּכַשִּׁ֥יל וְ֝כֵֽילַפֹּ֗ת יַהֲלֹמֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* and now engravings its altogether with axe\[s\] and crowbars they struck

*JPS 1917:* And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3597.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3597/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).