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# plowshare

noun

«plowshare» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

Joel calls on nations to turn plowshares into swords for war; Isaiah and Micah reverse it into peace. Samuel notes the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to sharpen theirs.

**Interpretation.** The reversed saying, swords into plowshares, is a famous Jewish vision of a time when nations will no longer learn war.

### Meaning

The blade of a plow that cuts the soil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/#m1)

### Examples

- Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.' (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/#x1)
- but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. (Prophets 1SA.13.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/#x2)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «plowshare» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«plowshare» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/plowshare.html) on Mova free.