Awl
מַרְצֵעַStrong’s H4836martsea (mar-tse-a)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Martsea is the Hebrew word usually translated “awl”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.”
Meaning
- Awl, boring-instrument
How it's translated
- with the awl 1
- the awl 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מַרְצֵעַ martsea · awl
awl, boring-instrument
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “awl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AWL, noun
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.