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Mattock

Disambiguation

The source enumerates 3 distinct subjects under Mattock. Jump to one below, or read in order.

  1. 1.Heb.
  2. 2.Heb.
  3. 3.Heb.

  1. Mattock (1)

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    Heb. ma’eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a vineyard (Isa. 7:25); a weeding-hoe.

  2. Mattock (2)

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    Heb. mahareshah (1 Sam. 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or coulter.

  3. Mattock (3)

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    Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chr. 34:6). Authorized Version, “with their mattocks,” marg. “mauls.” The Revised Version renders “in their ruins,” marg. “with their axes.” The Hebrew text is probably corrupt.

Also from Smith's (1884) +

(Isaiah 7:25) The tool used in Arabia for loosening the ground, described by Neibuhr, answers generally to our mattock or grubbing-axe, i.e. a single-headed pickaxe. The ancient Egyptian hoe was of wood, and answered for hoe, spade and pick.

In the Bible

3

Verses where Mattock is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Samuel 13:20

    Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

  • 1 Samuel 13:21

    The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

  • Isaiah 7:25

    For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

Scripture on Mattock

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Mattock references

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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)

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