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# לָטַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3913

**hammer** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hammer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3913/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָטַשׁ: vb. hammer, sharpen, whet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3913/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hammer, sharpen, whet (NH id., hammer, tap; Aramaic לְטַשׁ, ܠܛܰܫ sharpen; Arabic لَطَسَ strike, tap);— Impf. יִלְטוֹשׁ Jb 16:9 ψ 7:13; Inf. cstr. לִלְטוֹשׁ 1 S 13:20; Pt. לֹטֵשׁ;— hammer, only Pt. = hammerer, sq. כָּל־חֹרֵשׁ Gn 4:22 (J). sharpen sword, חֶרֶב (acc.) ψ 7:13; cf. 1 S 13:20, obj. מַחֲרֶשֶׁת, אֵת, קַרְדֹּם, מַחֲרֵשָׁה; fig. ל׳ עֵינַיִם לִי Jb 16:9 my foe whets his eyes for me. Pt. תַּעַר מְלֻטָּשׁ ψ 52:4 a sharpened razor (in sim. of evil tongue).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: 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: a sharpener (1); he sharpens (1); he will sharpen (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 52:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.4/#tree)

הַ֭וּוֹת תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב לְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָ כְּתַ֥עַר מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ עֹשֵׂ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* destruction(s) it.plots tongue your like a.razor sharpened O.\[you.who\].do (of).deceit

*JPS 1917:* Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

[Psalms 7:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.13/#tree)

אִם־לֹ֣א יָ֭שׁוּב חַרְבּ֣וֹ יִלְט֑וֹשׁ קַשְׁתּ֥וֹ דָ֝רַ֗ךְ וַֽיְכוֹנְנֶֽהָ׃

*Word for word:* if not anyone.will.repent sword his he.will.sharpen bow his he.has.bent and he has.prepared.it

*JPS 1917:* If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3913.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3913/): 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).