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title: אֵת — ploughshare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵת (855), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: ploughshare. BDB 1906: ploughshare. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵת

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«אֵת» 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 855 · **BDB:** אֵת⁴

### Glosses

plowshares (3); mattock (1); mattocks (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ploughshare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/855/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

ploughshare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/855/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a cutting instrument of iron, usually transl. ploughshare—sg. sf. אֵתוֹ 1 S 13:20; pl. אֵתִים 1 S 13:21, אִתִּים Is 2:4 = Mi 4:3; sf. אִתֵּיכֶם Jo 4:10; according to Klo al. also 2 K 6:5 אֶת־הַבַּרְזֶל, i.e. the axe of iron.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/855/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joel 4:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.10/)

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כֹּ֤תּוּ אִתֵּיכֶם֙ לַֽחֲרָב֔וֹת וּמַזְמְרֹֽתֵיכֶ֖ם לִרְמָחִ֑ים הַֽחַלָּ֔שׁ יֹאמַ֖ר גִּבּ֥וֹר אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* beat plowshares your into swords and your.pruning knives into spears the.weak \[man\] let.him.say \[am\].a.warrior I

*JPS 1917:* Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'

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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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