Hebrew noun (masculine) · H855
אֵת
ethayth
plowshare
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼêth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H855is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H855
a hoe or other digging implement
The King James renders it: coulter, plowshare.
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
eth is rendered "plowshare". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two 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 four 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 13:20אֵתוֹ֙
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
- into plowshares2
- and for the mattocks1
- mattock his1
- plowshares your1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- לְאִתִּ֗ים2
- אֵתוֹ֙1
- אִתֵּיכֶם֙1
- וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔ים1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
1 Samuel
two uses
Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
- אֵתוֹ֙ʾetonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mattock 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.
- וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔יםvelaetimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and for the mattocks
Isaiah
one use
Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
- לְאִתִּ֗יםleitimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: into plowshares
Joel
one use
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
- אִתֵּיכֶם֙ʾiteikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: plowshares your
Micah
one use
Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
- לְאִתִּ֗יםleitimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: into 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.