אֵתʼêth
ploughshare, a cutting instrument of iron (1 Samuel 13:20; 1 Samuel 13:21; Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3; Joel 4:10)
Pronunciation: ayth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H855
Where it appears
Appears 5 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.
- Isaiah 2:4 The Lord will mediate between nations and will settle international disputes. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.
- Joel 3:10 Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Train even your weaklings to be warriors.
- Micah 4:3 The Lord will mediate between peoples and will settle disputes between strong nations far away. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.
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).