Et אֵת
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| אֵת | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | et |
| Strong's number | H855 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | plowshare |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | 1 Samuel (2) |
Et (Hebrew אֵת, Strong's H855) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “plowshare”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
ploughshare
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | plowshares (3), coulter (1), coulters (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | into plowshares (2), mattocks (1), mattock (1), your plowshares (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Et, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 13:20But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
- 1 Samuel 13:21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
Joel
- Joel 3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
Micah
- Micah 4:3And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).