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# מַאֲכֶלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3979

**knife** — used 4 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

knife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3979/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַאֲכֶ֫לֶת: n.f. knife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3979/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. knife (as cutting instrum., or instrument for dividing, making small, cf. S\[iegfr.\]ThLZ Nov. 17, ’83) Ju 19:29; מַאֲכֶ֑לֶת Gn 22:6, 10, pl. מַאֲכָלוֹת Pr 30:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: knife (3); knives (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 22:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.10/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח אַבְרָהָם֙ אֶת־יָד֔וֹ וַיִּקַּ֖ח אֶת־הַֽמַּאֲכֶ֑לֶת לִשְׁחֹ֖ט אֶת־בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.stretched.out Abraham (et) hand his and he.took (et) the knife to slaughter (et) son his

*JPS 1917:* And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

[Proverbs 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.14/#tree)

דּ֤וֹר ׀ חֲרָב֣וֹת שִׁנָּיו֮ וּֽמַאֲכָל֪וֹת מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יולֶאֱכֹ֣ל עֲנִיִּ֣ים מֵאֶ֑רֶץ וְ֝אֶבְיוֹנִ֗ים מֵאָדָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* a.generation \[are\].swords teeth its and.\[are\] knives fangs its to devour afflicted.\[people\] from.\[the\] earth and needy.\[people\] from humankind

*JPS 1917:* There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their great teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3979.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3979/): 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).