To sharpen
לָטַשׁStrong’s H3913latash (la-tash)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Latash is the Hebrew word usually translated “sharpener of”, “sharpen” and “sharpens”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.”
Meaning
- To sharpen, hammer, whet(Qal) · (Pual) to be sharpened
How it's translated
- a sharpener of 1
- to sharpen 1
- he sharpens 1
- he will sharpen 1
- sharpened 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 13:20But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
- Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- Psalms 7:12If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Hebrew dictionary
לָטַשׁ latash · to sharpen
1) to sharpen, hammer, whet 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hammer 1a2) to sharpen (sword) 1a3) hammerer (participle) 1b) (Pual) to be sharpened
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.