Knife
מַאֲכֶ֫לֶתStrong’s H3979maakhelet (ma-a-khe-let)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maakhelet is the Hebrew word usually translated “knife” and “knives”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.”
Meaning
- Knife
How it's translated
- the knife 3
- and knives 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Judges 1
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 22:10And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
- Judges 19:29And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Hebrew dictionary
מַאֲכֶ֫לֶת maakhelet · knife
knife
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “knife” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KNIFE,noun
nife; plural knives; nives.
- A cutting instrument with a sharp edge.
- A sword or dagger.
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.