H4300 H4300
wrought-metal rod or bar (cast or hammered metal, used figuratively)
Job 40:18 employs this rare word to describe the hippo's bones as like bars of iron—a metaphor for supreme strength. The term, related to an Aramaic root, denotes not just any metal rod but specifically wrought metal, shaped by casting or forging. The parallel line compares the creature's bones to tubes of bronze, creating a double metallurgical metaphor. This is divine poetry celebrating raw physical power: bones so dense and strong they resemble worked iron, the hardest metal known to the ancient world.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — A rod or bar made of wrought metal (cast or hammered), used figuratively in Job 40:18 to describe Behemoth's bones. The context pairs 'bars of iron' with 'tubes of bronze' in classic Hebrew parallelism, emphasizing the creature's extraordinary skeletal strength. The Aramaic cognate supports the sense of worked metal rather than raw ore. God's rhetorical question to Job reaches its climax in celebrating this creature whose very frame is like industrial metalwork—unbreakable, foundational, beyond human strength to subdue. 1×
AR["كَقُضْبَانِ"]·ben["-দণ্ডের-মতো"]·DE["[כמטיל]"]·EN["like-bars-of"]·FR["comme-כמטיל"]·heb["כ-מטיל"]·HI["छड़-की-तरह"]·ID["seperti-batang"]·IT["come-like-bars-di"]·jav["kadosdéné-batangan"]·KO["막대-같은"]·PT["como-barra-de-"]·RU["как-брусья"]·ES["como-barra-de"]·SW["kama-fito"]·TR["çubuk-gibi"]·urd["جیسے-سلاخ"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† מְטִיל n.m. wrought-metal rod (Aramaic (𝔗) מְטָל);—cstr. מְטִיל בַּרְזֶל Jb 40:18 fig. of bones (גְּרָמִים) of hippopot. (‖ עֲצָמָיו אֲפִיקֵי נְחֻשָׁה).