chadad (be sharp)

Meaning

To be sharp, be alert, be keen(Qal) to be sharp, be keen · (Hiphil) to sharpen · (Hophal) to be sharpened
To be or to grow sharp(Qal) to grow sharp · (Hiphil) to sharpen

How it's translated

it has been sharpened 3
it grows sharp 1
he sharpens 1
and they are keen 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezekiel 3
Proverbs 1
Habakkuk 1

3 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Ezekiel 21:9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
Ezekiel 21:10It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Ezekiel 21:11And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
Habakkuk 1:8Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

Hebrew dictionary

חָדַד chadad · be sharp

1) to be sharp, be alert, be keen 1a) (Qal) to be sharp, be keen 1b) (Hiphil) to sharpen 1c) (Hophal) to be sharpened Also means: cha.dah (חָדַה "to sharpen" H2300B)

חָדַה chadah · to sharpen

1) to be or to grow sharp 1a) (Qal) to grow sharp 1b) (Hiphil) to sharpen

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “sharpen” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SHARPEN, verb transitive

To make sharp; to give a keen edge or a fine point to a thing; to edge; to point; as, to sharpen a knife, an ax or the teeth of a saw; to sharpen a sword.“All of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter, and his ax and his mattock” 1 Samuel 13:20
To make more eager or active; as, to sharpen the edge of industry.
To make more pungent and painful.
To make more quick, acute or ingenious.

All definitions and other forms of “sharpen”

To render perception more quick or acute.
To render more keen; to make more eager for food or for any gratification; as, to sharpen the appetite; to sharpen a desire.
To make biting, sarcastic or severe.
To render less flat, or more shrill or piercing.
To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
To make more distressing; as, to sharpen grief or other evis.
In music, to raise a sound by means of a sharp.

SH'ARPEN, verb intransitive

To grow or become sharp.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.