Hammer
הַלְמוּתStrong’s H1989halmut (hal-mut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Halmut is the Hebrew word usually translated “hammer of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.”
Meaning
- Hammer, mallet
How it's translated
- to a hammer of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
הַלְמוּת halmut · hammer
hammer, mallet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hammer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAM'MER, noun
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like. It consists of an iron head, fixed crosswise to a handle. Hammers are of various sizes; a large hammer used by smiths is called a sledge.
All definitions and other forms of “hammer”
HAM'MER, verb transitive
To beat with a hammer; as, to hammer iron or steel.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- To work in the mind; to contrive by intellectual labor; usually with out; as, to hammer out a scheme.
HAM'MER, verb intransitive
To work; to be busy; to labor in contrivance.
- To be working or in agitation.
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.