Plowshare
אֵתStrong’s H0855et
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Et is the Hebrew word usually translated “mattock his”, “mattocks” and “plowshares”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.”
Meaning
- Ploughshare
How it's translated
- mattock his 1
- and for the mattocks 1
- plowshares 1
- plowshares your 1
- into plowshares 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 1
- Joel 1
- Micah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 13:21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
- Isaiah 2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
- Joel 3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
- Micah 4:3And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵת et · plowshare
ploughshare
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plowshare” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLOW'SHARE, noun
[See Shear.]
The part of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of the furrow, and raises the slice to the mold-board, which turns it over.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.