H4741 H4741
planes, scraping tools used by carpenters for shaping wood
This word refers to planes or scraping tools, woodworking implements used to shape and smooth timber. It appears in Isaiah 44:13 in a satirical description of idol-making, where the carpenter 'marks it out with planes'. The prophet mocks the process: craftsmen use ordinary tools (planes, compasses, chisels) to fashion gods from the same wood they might burn for warmth. The term is technical carpentry vocabulary, describing a tool for refining wood surfaces.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Scraping tools or planes used in woodworking to shape and smooth timber. Isaiah's idol-making satire catalogs the carpenter's toolkit—planes are one implement among several used to craft a god from wood. The irony is devastating: divine images require the same mundane tools as furniture. The term appears only in this prophetic critique, highlighting the absurdity of manufacturing deities. 1×
AR["بِالمَنَاقِيرِ"]·ben["ছেনিতে"]·DE["[במקצעות]"]·EN["with-planes"]·FR["[במקצעות]"]·heb["ב-מקצועות"]·HI["से-छेनीओं"]·ID["dengan-pahat"]·IT["[במקצעות]"]·jav["kalayan-pahat"]·KO["에-끄"]·PT["com-os-formões"]·RU["резцами"]·ES["con-formones"]·SW["kwa-patasi"]·TR["keskilerle"]·urd["رندوں-سے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מַקְצֻעָה] n.[f.] scraping tool, used in fashioning idols;—pl. בַּמַּקְצֻעוֹת Is 44:13.