Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4281
מַחֲרֵשָׁה
machareshahmakh-ar-ay-shaw'
plowshare
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: machărêshâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4281is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4281
probably a pick-axe
The King James renders it: mattock.
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
machareshah is rendered "plowshare". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 13:20Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
1 Samuel 13:20מַחֲרַשְׁתּ֤וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- plowshare his2
- for the plowshares1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחֲנֶה | machaneh | camp | Uses215 |
| מַחֲשָׁבָה | machashabah | plot | Uses56 |
| מַחֲלֹקֶת | machaloqeth | division | Uses42 |
| מַחֲסֶה | machaseh | refuge | Uses20 |
| מַחֲצִית | machatsith | half | Uses16 |
| מַחֲלֶה | machaleh | sickness | Uses6 |
| מַחֲבַת | machabath | griddle | Uses5 |
| מַחֲזֶה | machazeh | vision | Uses4 |
| מַחֲבֵא | machabe | hiding-place | Uses2 |
| מַחֲלָצָה | machalatsah | robe | Uses2 |
| מַחֲלָף | machalaph | knife | Uses1 |
| מַחֲנַק | machanaq | strangling | Uses1 |
and 6 more on the stem.
All 3, 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
- לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙1
- מַחֲרַשְׁתּ֤וֹ1
- מַחֲרֵשָׁתֽוֹ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa
1 Samuel
three uses
Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
- מַחֲרַשְׁתּ֤וֹmacharashtonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: plowshare his
- מַחֲרֵשָׁתֽוֹ׃machareshatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: plowshare his
The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
- לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙lamachareshotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: for the plowshares
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.