Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3979
מַאֲכֶלֶת
maakelethmah-ak-eh'-leth
knife
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maʼăkeleth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3979is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3979
something to eat with,i.e. a knife
The King James renders it: knife.
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
maakeleth is rendered "knife". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 22:6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:6הַֽמַּאֲכֶ֑לֶת
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
- the knife3
- and knives1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- הַֽמַּאֲכֶ֑לֶת2
- הַֽמַּאֲכֶ֙לֶת֙1
- וּֽמַאֲכָל֪וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
Genesis
two uses
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.
- הַֽמַּאֲכֶ֑לֶתhamaakheletthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the knife
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
- הַֽמַּאֲכֶ֑לֶתhamaakheletthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the knife
Judges
one use
When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
- הַֽמַּאֲכֶ֙לֶת֙hamaakheletthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the knife
Proverbs
one use
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- וּֽמַאֲכָל֪וֹתumaakhalotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and knives
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.