Sharpening Implements

Purificar, seleccionar o refinar — abarcando la purga moral, la elección de lo mejor y el afilado de armas. Abarca un vívido rango semántico desde el

Navaja o cuchillo para cortar; vaina o funda para una espada. El sustantivo תַּעַר (ta'ar) abarca dos objetos notablemente distintos unidos solo por s

Agudo, afilado (de instrumentos de trilla); en sentido figurado: diligente, laborioso (de personas en Proverbios).

Afilar, aguzar (una hoja o la lengua); enseñar diligentemente mediante repetición; ser traspasado interiormente.

Agudo, afilado; veloz, rápido — del filo cortante de una hoja o de pies que se mueven con rapidez.

Herramienta cortante de hierro —reja de arado o azadón— instrumento emblemático de la profecía de espadas convertidas en arados.

Tenazas o despabiladeras: sustantivo en forma dual para utensilios del templo usados para recortar mechas o manejar brasas.

Martillar, afilar, amolar; usado para la forja de metales, el afilado de hojas y figuradamente para miradas hostiles.

Garfios o trinchantes sacrificiales; horquillas de tres puntas para manipular las ofrendas sobre el altar

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Afilado, agudo; describe una espada, lengua o boca como cortante y penetrante.

sierra (herramienta para cortar piedra o madera)

Podaderas; herramientas curvas para podar vides, símbolo profético de la transformación entre guerra y paz

Navaja, instrumento cortante afilado para afeitar o rasurar

† I. [חָדָה] vb. be or grow sharp;— Qal grow sharp, Impf. apoc. = juss. יָ֑חַד Pr 27:17a; Hiph. sharpen (fig.), Impf. apoc. יַ֫חַד Pr 27:17b; בַּרְזֶל בְּבַרְזֶל יָ֑חַד וְאִישׁ יַחַד פְּנֵי־רֵעֵהוּ let iron by means of iron grow sharp, and let a man sharpen the countenance (presence, bearing) of his friend;—so KiMichl. 126 a De Now KöLgb i, 373 f., cf. Str. (who however makes both forms Hiph.)

† מַזְלֵג n.m. appar. a sacrificial implement, three-pronged fork הַמּ׳ שְׁלשׁ הַשִּׁנַּיִם 1 S 2:13, cf. v 14 (v. DrSm. pp. 23, 291).

† מִזְרֶה n.[m.] pitch-fork, with six prongs (= مذراة) used in winnowing, cf. WetzstZPV 1891, xiv. 2; for winnowing provender זֹרֶה בָרַחַת וּבְמ׳ Is 30:24; fig. for winnowing, i.e. chastising the people וָאֶזְרֵם בְּמ׳ Je 15:7.

† [מַחֲרֵשָׁה, מַחֲרֶ֫שֶׁת] 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).

Included with: τόμος, ὁ, slice, τ. ἐκ πτέρνης Refs; γαστρός, πλακοῦντος, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀλλάντων, πυοῦ, Refs 5th c.BC+; τυροῦ, ἡνύστρου, Refs 4th c.BC+: generally, piece, κιθῶνος Refs 4th c.BC+; of wood, beam, Refs 3rd c.BC+ __2 piece of land, Refs __3 Geometry texts, τ. κυλίνδρου frustum of a cylinder, portion of right cylinder intercepted between two parallel oblique sections, Refs 3rd c.BC+ Con.Sph.Def.; τ. ἀπὸ ὀρθογωνίου κώνου τομᾶς ἀφαιρούμενος frustum of the section of a right-angled cone, i e. portion of a parabola cut off by two parallel double-ordinates, Refs __II roll of papyrus, LXX+3rd c.BC+; τ. συγκολλήσιμος Refs 1st c.AD+; τιμῆς ἀπὸ τόμου ἀγραφίου Refs 1st c.AD+; tome, volume, Refs 2nd c.AD+

† [אָזֵן] n.[m.] coll. implements, tools (from sharpness? Aramaic אֲזֵנִין, ܙܝܢ weapons)אֲזֵנֶ֑ךָ׃ Dt 23:14 (Cdd. אזניך 𝔊 𝔙 אֵזֹר cf. Di).

† חָדַד vb. be sharp, keen (Aramaic חֲדַד; NH חִדֵּד sharpen; Arabic حَدَّ be sharp and sharpen; Assyrian uddudu, sharpen, DlPr 174; cf. I. חָדָה)— Qal Pf. וְחַדּ֫וּ מִזְּאֵבֵי עֶרֶב consec. Hb 1:8 are keener than evening wolves (of impetuous Chaldean horses). Hiph. הֵחֵד (Che Or Brd) or יַחֵד (Näg cf. Dr§ 123 a, R), ins. Is 44:12 after 𝔊 𝔖: the smith sharpeneth an axe. Hoph. Pf. 3 fs. הוּחַדָּה Ez 21:14, 15, 16 be sharpened (in all, subj. חֶרֶב). Hithpa. הִתְאַחֲדִי Ez 21:21.

† דָּרְבָן n.[m.] goad (NH id.), לְהַצִּיב הַדָּרְבָ֑ן 1 S 13:21 (on form cf. Ol§ 215 b. 3 al. Dr).

[דָּֽרְבֹנָה] n.[f.] goad, only abs. pl., in sim. דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים כַּדָּ֣רְבֹנוֹת Ec 12:11 (cf. De Koh 434).

† [חַדּוּד] adj. sharpened, sharp, pointed, only cstr., with superlat. sense = subst.: תַּחְתָּיו חַדּוּדֵי חָ֑רֶשׁ Jb 41:22 beneath him the sharpest of potsherds, of scales of crocodile, cf. Di VB.

† כֵּילַפּוֹת n.[f.] axe (loan-word (cf. Frä74) from Assyrian kalappatu v. DlHWB 333)—בְּכַשִּׁיל וְכ׳ יַהֲלֹמ֑וּן ψ 74:6 (‖ קַרְדֻּמּוֹת v 5).

† [מֶגְרָפָה] n.f. shovel (NH id.; Aramaic מַגְרוֹפִיתָא; Arabic مَجْرَفَةٌ (v. Lane)) only pl. מֶגְרְפֹתֵיהֶם Jo 1:17 (Thes clods, after Jewish interpreters, so AV RV, cf. however Me Joel 100 f.; 𝔊 Me ארותיהם their cribs, of cattle; meaning of clause dubious).

† מְחוּגָה n.f. circle-instrument, compass, used by carvers of idols וּבַמְּחוּגָה יְתָֽאֳרֵ֑הוּ Is 44:13.

† [מַחֲרֵשָׁה, מַחֲרֶ֫שֶׁת] 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).

† מַעְדֵּר n.[m.] hoe Is 7:25, v. foregoing.

† מַשּׂוֹר n.m. saw;—abs. Is 10:15.

† קִלְּשׁוֹן doubtful word, in phrase וְלִשְׁלשׁ ק׳ 1 S 13:21 (poss. would be fine point, cf. Aramaic קלשׁ be thin, hence שׁ׳ ק׳ tridens, E.V. forks, but against anal., v. especially Dr).