קַרְדֹּםqardôm

axe (1 Samuel 13:20; Judges 9:48; 1 Samuel 13:21; Jeremiah 46:22; Psalms 74:5)

Pronunciation: kar-dome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7134

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 9:48 so he led his forces to Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and chopped some branches from a tree, then put them on his shoulder. “Quick, do as I have done!” he told his men.
  • 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.
  • Psalms 74:5 They swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest.
  • Jeremiah 46:22 Egypt flees, silent as a serpent gliding away. The invading army marches in; they come against her with axes like woodsmen.

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).