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# plowshare

«plowshare» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The blade of a plow that cuts the soil** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The blade of a plow that cuts the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Joel calls on nations to turn plowshares into swords for war; Isaiah and Micah reverse it into peace. Samuel notes the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to sharpen theirs. Interpretation: The reversed saying, swords into plowshares, is a famous Jewish vision of a time when nations will no longer learn war.

### examples

- Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.' (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/#x1)
- but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. (Prophets 1SA.13.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.62/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plowshare» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plowshare/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.