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# מַחֲרֵשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4281

**ploughshare** — used 3 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

ploughshare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4281/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲרֵשָׁה: n.f. ploughshare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4281/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ploughshare—sg. sf. לִלְטוֹשׁ אִישׁ מַחֲרַשְׁתּוֹ v 20 to sharpen each man his ploughshare 1 S 13:20 (+ אֵתוֹ, קַרְדֻּמּוֹ) + מַחֲרֵשָׁתוֹ v 20, read prob. דָּרְבָּנוֹ his goad (so 𝔊 𝔖 We Dr, see v 21); pl. abs. מַחֲרֵשֹׁת v 21 (+ similar list; on text of both vv. see Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: plowshare (2); plowshares (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 13:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.20/#tree)

וַיֵּרְד֥וּ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים לִ֠לְטוֹשׁ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־מַחֲרַשְׁתּ֤וֹ וְאֶת־אֵתוֹ֙ וְאֶת־קַרְדֻּמּ֔וֹ וְאֵ֖ת מַחֲרֵשָׁתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.down all Israel the Philistines to sharpen each.man (et) plowshare his and (et) mattock his and (et) axe his and (et) plowshare his

*JPS 1917:* but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

[1 Samuel 13:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.21/#tree)

וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה הַפְּצִ֣ירָה פִ֗ים לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙ וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔ים וְלִשְׁלֹ֥שׁ קִלְּשׁ֖וֹן וּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּ֑ים וּלְהַצִּ֖יב הַדָּרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the charge two.thirds.of.a.shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks and for three fork and for the axes and to make.straight the goad\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4281.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4281/): 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).