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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4621

מַעֲצָד

maatsadmah-ats-awd'

axe

2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: maʻătsâd

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4621is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4621

an axe

The King James renders it: ax, tongs.

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

maatsad is rendered "axe". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 44:12The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

Isaiah 44:12מַֽעֲצָ֔ד

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Isaiah.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a tool1
  • with the tool1

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.

מַעֲשֶׂהmaasehdeed: workUses236
מַעֲלָלmaalaldeedUses41
מַעֲלָהmaalahthoughtUses32
מַעֲשֵׂרmaasertitheUses32
מַעֲרָכָהmaarakahrankUses19
מַעֲלֶהmaalehascentUses18
מַעֲרָבmaarabwestUses14
מַעֲבָרmaabarfordUses11
מַעֲרֶכֶתmaarekethrowUses10
מַעֲרָבmaarabmerchandiseUses9
מַעֲכָתִיMaakathiMaacathiteUses8
מַעֲנֶהmaanehanswerUses7

and 18 more on the stem.

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 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

  • בַּֽמַּעֲצָֽד׃1
  • מַֽעֲצָ֔ד1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa

Isaiah

one use
  • The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

    Isaiah 44:12

    • מַֽעֲצָ֔דmaatzadnoun · masculine singulartagged: a tool

Jeremiah

one use
  • For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.

    Jeremiah 10:3

    • בַּֽמַּעֲצָֽד׃bamaatzadpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the tool

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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