Hilt
נִצָּבStrong’s H5325nitstsav (nits-tsav)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nitstsav is the Hebrew word usually translated “hilt”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.”
Meaning
- Haft, hilt (of sword)
How it's translated
- the hilt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נִצָּב nitstsav · hilt
haft, hilt (of sword)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hilt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HILT, noun
The handle of any thing; but chiefly applied to the handle of a sword.
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.