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# קַרְדֹּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7134

**axe** — 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

axe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7134/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַרְדֹּם: axe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7134/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] axe (√ unknown; cf. NH קַרְדֹּם double hoe, one side of which could split wood, VogelstLandwirthsch. 37; Arabic قَدُّومٌ, قَدُوم adze is loan-wd. according to Frä84);—sf. קַרְדֻּמּוֹ 1 S 13:20 + Ju 9:48 (so prob. read for הַקַּרְדֻּמוֹת, A 𝔊L τ. ἀξίνην, GFM Bu Now); pl. קַרְדֻּמִּים 1 S 13:21, קַרְדֻּמּוֹת Je 46:22 ψ 74:5.

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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: axes (4); axe (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 74:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.74.5/#tree)

יִ֭וָּדַע כְּמֵבִ֣יא לְמָ֑עְלָה בִּֽסֲבָךְ־עֵ֝֗ץ קַרְדֻּמּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* it.was.known like \[one.who\].brings (to) upwards in a.thicket of.tree\[s\] axes

*JPS 1917:* It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.

[Jeremiah 46:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.22/#tree)

קוֹלָ֖הּ כַּנָּחָ֣שׁ יֵלֵ֑ךְ כִּֽי־בְחַ֣יִל יֵלֵ֔כוּ וּבְקַרְדֻּמּוֹת֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔הּ כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י עֵצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* sound its \[is\].like (the) snake \[which\].it.goes (dm) in strength they.will.come and with axes they.will.come to it like cutters of.wood(s)

*JPS 1917:* The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7134.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7134/): 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).