Bible Dictionary: Axes

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Plural of Axis.

Strong's Hebrew

4037. magzerah -- a cutting instrument, axe
... 4036, 4037. magzerah. 4038 . a cutting instrument, axe. Transliteration: magzerah
Phonetic Spelling: (mag-zay-raw') Short Definition: axes. ...
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4050. megerah -- a saw
... Word Origin from garar Definition a saw NASB Word Usage axes (1), saws (3). axe,
saw. From garar; a saw -- axe, saw. see HEBREW garar. 4049, 4050. ...
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2719. chereb -- a sword
... Word Origin from charab Definition a sword NASB Word Usage axes (1), knives
(2), sword (390), swords (18), swordsmen* (1), tool (1). ...
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7134. qardom -- an axe
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition an axe NASB Word Usage axe (3), axes
(2). ax. Perhaps from qadam in the sense of striking upon; an axe -- ax. ...
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Library

The Riot
... daubed the frescoes with mud, tore down the candelabra, broke off the heads and
noses of the statues, hacked at the trees in the grounds with axes, and in ten ...
/.../gathering clouds a tale of the days of st chrysostom/chapter ii the riot.htm

The Death of Saint David.
... Knight after knight sank down under the terrific blows of the Pagan clubs and
battle-axes, till there seemed but little prospect that the patriot army would ...
/.../kingston/the seven champions of christendom/chapter sixteen the death of.htm

The Doom of the Antichrist
... A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. But now
they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/the doom of the antichrist.htm

Caput xv.
... what the sacerdotal? what the girdles? what the rods? what the spears? what the
battle-axes? what the measuring lines? what the winds? what the clouds? ...
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The Sixt Part.
... that he may strike the Aramites, not three but five times till they be consumed;
that he may put the Ammonites under the yron sawes, harrowes, axes, which have ...
/.../ward/a coal from the altar to kindle the holy fire of zeale/the sixt part.htm

The Story of Noah and the Ark
... All the people in the time of Enoch were not shepherds. Some of them had
learned how to make rude bows and arrows and axes and plows. ...
/.../marshall/the wonder book of bible stories/the story of noah and.htm

Salvation Army Publications
... Cloth, 1s. Bible Battle-Axes. A reprint of Short Scripture Studies from 'The Field
Officer' magazine. Carefully revised.178 pages. Cloth, 1s. Our Master. ...
/.../howard/standards of life and service/salvation army publications.htm

And So, Having Made These Remarks as it were by Way of Preface...
... Are you not yourselves every day, in your efforts to illumine the darkness of antiquity,
cutting and hewing with the new axes of imperial rescripts and edicts ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/apology/chapter iv and so having.htm

But I Pass from These Remarks, for I Know and I am Going to Show.. ...
... You tear the sides of Christians with your claws; but in the case of your own gods,
axes, and planes, and rasps are put to work more vigorously on every member ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/apology/chapter xii but i pass.htm

A Fit and Auspicious Day was Sought Out for the Accomplishment of ...
... Then the Pretorian Guards came in battle array, with axes and other iron instruments,
and having been let loose everywhere, they in a few hours levelled that ...
/.../lactantius/of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap xii a fit and.htm

Thesaurus

Axes (10 Occurrences)
...Axes (10 Occurrences). ... 1 Samuel 13:21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for
the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads. ...
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Axhead (1 Occurrence)
... The modern ax used by the woodchoppers in Syria has a shape much like the ancient
stone and bronze axes, with the exception that it is fastened to the handle ...
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Axe (19 Occurrences)
... The modern ax used by the woodchoppers in Syria has a shape much like the ancient
stone and bronze axes, with the exception that it is fastened to the handle ...
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Ax (12 Occurrences)
... The modern ax used by the woodchoppers in Syria has a shape much like the ancient
stone and bronze axes, with the exception that it is fastened to the handle ...
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Ax-head
... The modern ax used by the woodchoppers in Syria has a shape much like the ancient
stone and bronze axes, with the exception that it is fastened to the handle ...
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Grain-crushers (2 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 12:31 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with
wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick ...
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Wood-cutting (2 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 12:31 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with
wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick ...
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Mattock (2 Occurrences)
... "mauls." The Revised Version renders "in their ruins," marg. "with their axes."
The Hebrew text is probably corrupt. Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Picks (7 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 12:31 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under
saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through ...
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Ploughs (2 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 13:20 But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their
ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp; (BBE DBY YLT). ...
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Bible Concordance

Axes (10 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 13:20 But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;
(BBE NIV)

1 Samuel 13:21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 12:31 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 20:3 He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut them with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 34:6 And'so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.
(See JPS)

Psalms 74:5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Psalms 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
(KJV WBS NIV)

Jeremiah 46:22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 9:5 And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:
(BBE)

Ezekiel 26:9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Axes

Related Terms

Axhead (1 Occurrence)

Axe (19 Occurrences)

Ax (12 Occurrences)

Ax-head

Grain-crushers (2 Occurrences)

Wood-cutting (2 Occurrences)

Mattock (2 Occurrences)

Picks (7 Occurrences)

Ploughs (2 Occurrences)