Knife
מַחֲלָףStrong’s H4252machalaph (ma-cha-laph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Machalaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “knives”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,”
Meaning
- Knife
How it's translated
- knives 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲלָף machalaph · 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.