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Point

חַדּוּדStrong’s H2303

chaddud (chad-dud)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chaddud is the Hebrew word usually translated “sharp points of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.”
Job 41:30 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sharp, pointed, sharpened
How it's translated
  • sharp points of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Job 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    חַדּוּד chaddud · point

    sharp, pointed, sharpened

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    POINT, noun

    [Latin punctum, from pungo, to prick, properly to thrust, preterit tense pepugi, showing that n is not radical.]

    1. The sharp end of any instrument or body; as the point of a knife, of a sword or of a thorn.
    2. A string with a tag; as a silken point
    3. A small cape, headland or promontory; a tract of land extending into the sea, a lake or river, beyond the line of the shore, and becoming narrow at the end; as point Judith; Montauk point It is smaller than a cape.
    4. The sting of an epigram; a lively turn of thought or expression that strikes with force and agreeable surprise.
    All definitions and other forms of “point”
    1. An indivisible part of time or space.
    2. A small space; as a small point of land.
    3. Punctilio; nicety; exactness of ceremony; as points of precedence.
    4. Place near, next or contiguous to; verge; eve.
    5. Exact place.
    6. Degree; state of elevation, depression or extension; as, he has reached an extraordinary point of excellence.
    7. A character used to mark the divisions of writing, or the pauses to be observed in reading or speaking; as the comma, semi-colon, colon and period.
    8. A spot; a part of a surface divided by spots or lines; as the ace or sise point
    9. In geometry, that which has neither parts nor magnitude.
    10. In music, mark or note anciently used to distinguish tones or sounds.
    11. In modern music, a dot placed by a note to raise its value or prolong its time by one half, so as to make a semibreve equal to three minims; a minim equal to three quavers, etc.
    12. In astronomy, a division of the great circles of the horizon, and of the mariner's compass.
    13. In astronomy, a certain place marked in the heavens, or distinguished for its importance in astronomical calculations.
    14. In perspective, a certain pole or place with regard to the perspective plane.
    15. In manufactories, a lace or work wrought by the needle; as point le Venice, point de Genoa, etc.
    16. The place to which any thing is directed, or the direction in which an object is presented to the eye.
    17. Particular; single thing or subject.
    18. Aim; purpose; thing to be reached or accomplished; as, to gain one's point
    19. The act of aiming or striking.
    20. A single position; a single assertion; a single part of a complicated question or of a whole.
    21. A note or tune.
    22. In heraldry, points are the several different parts of the escutcheon, denoting the local positions of figures.
    23. In electricity, the acute termination of a body which facilitates the passage of the fluid to or from the body.
    24. In gunnery, point-blank denotes the shot of a gun leveled horizontally.
    25. In marine language, points are flat pieces of braided cordage, tapering from the middle towards each end; used in reefing the courses and top-sails of square-rigged vessels.

    POINT, verb transitive

    To sharpen; to cut, forge, grind or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart or a pin; also, to taper, as a rope.

    1. To direct towards an object or place, to show its position, or excite attention to it; as, to point the finger at an object; to point the finger of scorn at one.
    2. To direct the eye or notice.
    3. To aim; to direct towards an object; as, to point a musket at a wolf; to point a cannon at a gate.
    4. To mark with characters for the purpose of distinguishing the members of a sentence, and designating the pauses; as, to point a written composition.
    5. To mark with vowel-points.
    6. To appoint. [Not in use.]
    7. To fill the joints with mortar, and smooth them with the point of a trowel; as, to point a wall.

    POINT, verb intransitive

    To direct the finger for designating an object, and exciting attention to it; with at.

    1. To indicate, as dogs do to sportsmen.
    2. To show distinctly by any means.
    3. To fill the joints or crevices of a wall with mortar.
    4. In the rigging of a ship, to taper the end of a rope or splice, and work over the reduced part a small close netting, with an even number of knittles twisted from the same.

    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.