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Rod

מְטִילStrong’s H4300

metil (me-til)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Metil is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a rod of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.”
Job 40:18 KJV
Meaning
  1. Hammered bar, wrought iron bar, wrought metal rod
How it's translated
  • like a rod of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    מְטִיל metil · rod

    hammered bar, wrought iron bar, wrought metal rod

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “rod” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    ROD, noun

    [Latin radius, ray, radix, root.]

    1. The shoot or long twig of any woody plant; a branch, or the stem of a shrub; as a rod of hazle, of birch, of oak or hickory.
    2. An instrument of punishment or correction; chastisement.“I will chasten him with the rod of men” 2 Samuel 7:14
    3. Discipline; ecclesiastical censures. 1 Corinthians 4:21
    4. A king of scepter.
    All definitions
    1. A pole for angling; something long and slender.
    2. An instrument for measuring; but more generally, a measure of length containing five yards, or sixteen feet and a half; a pole; a perch.
    3. In Scripture, a staff or wand. 1 Samuel 14:27
    4. Support.“Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me” Psalms 23:4
    5. A shepherd's crook. Leviticus 27:32
    6. An instrument for threshing. Isaiah 28:27
    7. Power; authority. Psalms 125:3
    8. A tribe or race.

    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.