Saw
מְגֵרָהStrong’s H4050megerah (me-ge-rah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Megerah is the Hebrew word usually translated “saw”, “at the saws” and “saws”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Saw (for stone cutting)
How it's translated
- with saw 2
- at the saws 1
- and with saws 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:9All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
- 1 Chronicles 20:3And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Hebrew dictionary
מְגֵרָה megerah · saw
saw (for stone cutting)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “saw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SAW, noun
[See the Verb.]
- A cutting instrument consisting of a blade or thin plate of iron or steel, with one edge dentated or toothed.
- A saying; proverb; maxim; decree. obsolete [See Say.]
All definitions and other forms of “saw”
SAW, verb transitive
preterit tense sawed; participle passive sawed or sawn. [Latin seco; ]
- To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
- To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw timber into boards or planks.
SAW, verb intransitive
- To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
- To cut with a saw; as, the mill saws fast or well.
- To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smooth.
SAW'-DUST, noun
Dust or small fragments of wood or stone made by the attrition of a saw
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.