מַחֲרֵשָׁהmachărêshâh

ploughshare (1 Samuel 8:20; 1 Samuel 13:20; 1 Samuel 13:21)

Pronunciation: makh-ar-ay-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4281

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 13:20 So whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their plowshares, picks, axes, or sickles, they had to take them to a Philistine blacksmith.
  • 1 Samuel 13:21 The charges were as follows: a quarter of an ounce of silver for sharpening a plowshare or a pick, and an eighth of an ounce for sharpening an ax or making the point of an ox goad.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).