Hebrew verb · H3913
לָטַשׁ
latashlaw-tash'
to sharpen
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâṭash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3913is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3913
properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen
The King James renders it: instructer, sharp(-en), whet.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
latash is rendered "to sharpen". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:22And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Genesis 4:22לֹטֵ֕שׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a sharpener of1
- he sharpens1
- he will sharpen1
- sharpened1
- to sharpen1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִלְט֑וֹשׁ1
- יִלְט֖וֹשׁ1
- לֹטֵ֕שׁ1
- לִ֠לְטוֹשׁ1
- מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HVPsmsa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HVqrmsc
Genesis
one use
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
- לֹטֵ֕שׁloteshverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a sharpener of
1 Samuel
one use
Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
- לִ֠לְטוֹשׁliltooshpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sharpen
Job
one use
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- יִלְט֖וֹשׁyiltooshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he sharpens
Psalms
two uses
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- יִלְט֑וֹשׁyiltooshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will sharpen
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁmelutashverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: sharpened
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.