Plane
מַקְצֻעָהStrong’s H4741maqtsuah (maq-tsu-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maqtsuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “scraping tools”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.”
Meaning
- Scraping tool (used in fashioning idols)
How it's translated
- with scraping tools 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַקְצֻעָה maqtsuah · plane
scraping tool (used in fashioning idols)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plane” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLANE, noun
[from Latin planus. See Plain.]
In geometry, an even or level surface, like plain in popular language.
- In astronomy, an imaginary surface supposed to pass through any of the curves described on the celestial sphere; as the plane of the ecliptic; the plane of a planet's orbit; the plane of a great circle.
- In mechanics. [See Plain figure.]
- In joinery and cabinet work, an instrument consisting of a smooth piece of wood, with an aperture, through which passes obliquely a piece of edged steel or chisel, used in paring or smoothing boards or wood of any kind.
All definitions and other forms of “plane”
PLANE, verb transitive
To make smooth; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of a board or other piece of wood by the use of a plane
- To free from inequalities of surface.
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.