Plowshare
מַחֲרֵשָׁהStrong’s H4281machareshah (ma-cha-re-shah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machareshah is the Hebrew word usually translated “plowshare his” and “plowshares”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.”
Meaning
- Plowshare
How it's translated
- plowshare his 2
- for the plowshares 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲרֵשָׁה machareshah · plowshare
plowshare
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plowshare” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLOW'SHARE, noun
[See Shear.]
The part of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of the furrow, and raises the slice to the mold-board, which turns it over.
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.