H855 - אֵת (ʼêth)

H855 אֵת (ʼêth) ayth

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

plowshare

Strong's Definition

a hoe or other digging implement

Derivation: of uncertain derivation;

KJV Usage: coulter, plowshare.

TWOT Reference: 192a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) ploughshare

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

ploughshare

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֵת êth BDB Definition: 1) ploughshare Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: of uncertain derivation Same Word by TWOT Number: 192a Total KJV Occurrences: 5

Bible Occurrences (5)

13:20 13:21

2:4

3:10

4:3

1 Samuel 13:20

Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen... their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

1 Samuel 13:21

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 2:4

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 3:10

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I [am] strong!

Micah 4:3

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.