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title: מַחֲרֵשָׁה — ploughshare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחֲרֵשָׁה (4281), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: ploughshare. BDB 1906: n.f. ploughshare. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחֲרֵשָׁה

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«מַחֲרֵשָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ploughshare** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 4281 · **BDB:** מַחֲרֵשָׁה

### Glosses

plowshare (2); plowshares (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ploughshare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4281/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. ploughshare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4281/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ploughshare—sg. sf. לִלְטוֹשׁ אִישׁ מַחֲרַשְׁתּוֹ v 20 to sharpen each man his ploughshare 1 S 13:20 (+ אֵתוֹ, קַרְדֻּמּוֹ) + מַחֲרֵשָׁתוֹ v 20, read prob. דָּרְבָּנוֹ his goad (so 𝔊 𝔖 We Dr, see v 21); pl. abs. מַחֲרֵשֹׁת v 21 (+ similar list; on text of both vv. see Dr).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחֲרֵשָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4281/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 13:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.20/)

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וַיֵּרְד֥וּ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים לִ֠לְטוֹשׁ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־מַחֲרַשְׁתּ֤וֹ וְאֶת־אֵתוֹ֙ וְאֶת־קַרְדֻּמּ֔וֹ וְאֵ֖ת מַחֲרֵשָׁתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.down all Israel the Philistines to sharpen each.man (et) plowshare his and (et) mattock his and (et) axe his and (et) plowshare his

*JPS 1917:* but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

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[1 Samuel 13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.21/)

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וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה הַפְּצִ֣ירָה פִ֗ים לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙ וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔ים וְלִשְׁלֹ֥שׁ קִלְּשׁ֖וֹן וּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּ֑ים וּלְהַצִּ֖יב הַדָּרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the charge two.thirds.of.a.shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks and for three fork and for the axes and to make.straight the goad\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.

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