Bible Dictionary: Tool

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

2. (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.

3. (n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.

4. (n.) A weapon.

5. (n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.

6. (v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.

7. (v. t.) To drive, as a coach.

Greek

5481. charakter -- a tool for engraving
... a tool for engraving. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: charakter
Phonetic Spelling: (khar-ak-tare') Short Definition: an exact reproduction ...
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3696. hoplon -- a tool, implement, weapon
... a tool, implement, weapon. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: hoplon
Phonetic Spelling: (hop'-lon) Short Definition: an instrument, arms, weapons ...
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2680. kataskeuazo -- to prepare
... 2680 (from 2596 , ", exactly according to," intensifying , "to prepare , using a
vessel, implement, or tool") -- properly, prepare (make ready), skillfully ...
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5061. Tertullos -- Tertullus, probably a Roman
... Tertullus, probably a Roman. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Tertullos
Phonetic Spelling: (ter'-tool-los) Short Definition: Tertullus Definition ...
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1783. enteuxis -- a petition, ie spec. supplication
... Intercession is not "the tool in and of itself" to act according to the , of
the intercessor! It always builds on faith (learning God's ).]. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2747. cheret -- engraving tool, stylus
... 2746, 2747. cheret. 2748 . engraving tool, stylus. Transliteration: cheret
Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-ret) Short Definition: tool. ...
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4741. maqtsuah -- a scraping tool
... 4740, 4741. maqtsuah. 4742 . a scraping tool. Transliteration: maqtsuah
Phonetic Spelling: (mak-tsoo-aw') Short Definition: planes. ...
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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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4621. maatsad -- an axe
... 4620, 4621. maatsad. 4622 . an axe. Transliteration: maatsad Phonetic
Spelling: (mah-ats-awd') Short Definition: tool. Word Origin ...
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3627. keli -- an article, utensil, vessel
... jar (2), jars (1), jars* (1), jewels (3), jewels* (1), object (3), pots (1), pottery
(1), sack (1), something* (1), thing (5), things (3), tool (1), utensils ...
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2848. chittul -- a bandage
... 2847, 2848. chittul. 2849 . a bandage. Transliteration: chittul Phonetic
Spelling: (khit-tool') Short Definition: bandage. Word ...
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5319. naphtulim -- wrestlings
... 5318, 5319. naphtulim. 5320 . wrestlings. Transliteration: naphtulim
Phonetic Spelling: (naf-tool') Short Definition: wrestlings. ...
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2904. tul -- to hurl, cast
... 2903, 2904. tul. 2905 . to hurl, cast. Transliteration: tul Phonetic Spelling:
(tool) Short Definition: hurled. Word Origin a prim. ...
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Library

The New Leaders Commission
... The instruments are changed, but the Master-hand is the same, and lays one tool
aside and takes another out of the tool-chest as He will. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the new leaders commission.htm

Building in Silence
... '. . . There was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of Iron heard In the house,
while it was in building.'"1 KINGS 7. The Temple was built in silence. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/building in silence.htm

The Account of the Building of Solomon's Temple Contains Serious ...
... The holy house, too, was got ready in peace and was to be built for God without
hammer or axe or any iron tool, that there might be no disturbance in the house ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/24 the account of the.htm

False Witnesses
... The priest who attended her on her deathbed, a friend and tool of Eusebius of Nicomedia,
induced her to persuade Constantine, who visited her continually ...
//christianbookshelf.org/forbes/saint athanasius/chapter 5 false witnesses.htm

Chapter iii
... So we are driven to the conclusion that Satan used the serpent as his tool or
instrument and was in the final analysis the one who spoke through this creature. ...
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Against those who Say that Demons Govern Human Affairs, and who ...
... And as the miscreants who sail the sea, often bore through the ship with a small
iron tool, and let in the whole sea to the ship from below; so accordingly then ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily i against those who.htm

A Description of the Temple.
... insensible acclivity. It was formed without any iron tool, nor did any
such iron tool so much as touch it at any time. There was ...
/.../chapter 5 a description of 2.htm

Are You Mocked?
... things don't go right." The smith took no notice of his observations, but after
a while walked across the smithy, and took down an odd-looking tool which he ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 62 1916/are you mocked.htm

The Arrest of the Body
... So that if anything new arose to be done, or to be better done, it was not a better
Hand that was now made but a better tool. Tools are external Hands. ...
/.../drummond/the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter iii the arrest of.htm

The Tears of the Penitent.
... the king's indifference to the loss of his men so long as Uriah is out of the way;
the solemn platitudes with which he pretends to console his tool for the ...
/.../maclaren/the life of david/xiii the tears of the penitent.htm

Thesaurus

Tool (13 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool. ...
6. (vt) To shape, form, or finish with a tool. 7. (vt) To drive, as a coach. ...
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Tools (3 Occurrences)
... (1) The percussion tool was the hammer, used for ... But the adz is a very ancient tool
and must certainly have existed in Palestine. See AX (AXE), AX-HEAD. ...
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Graving (7 Occurrences)
... 1:10, 11). (6.) Heret. In Exodus 32:4 rendered "graving tool;" and in Isaiah 8:1,
"a pen.". Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grave. ...
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Feed (117 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working
machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the ...
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Axe (19 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for
felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. ...
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Gouge (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face
which forms a curve. 3. (n.) An incising tool which cuts ...
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Wield (8 Occurrences)
... Exodus 20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones;
for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. (See NAS RSV). ...
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Float (4 Occurrences)
... 10. (n.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled
and smoothed. 11. (n.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner. 12. ...
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Edge (150 Occurrences)
... evening. 5. (vt) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
6. (vt) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. 7 ...
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Drift (1 Occurrence)
... 12. (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal,
by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach. 13. ...
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Bible Concordance

Tool (13 Occurrences)

Genesis 4:22 And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, the forger of every kind of tool of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
(DBY NIV)

Exodus 20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 32:4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 27:5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron tool on them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 8:31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 23:7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their place."
(See NIV)

1 Kings 6:7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 19:24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
(See NIV)

Isaiah 8:1 And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.'
(YLT)

Isaiah 44:12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 33:4 For thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that are broken down for the mounts, and for the tool;
(YLT)

Subtopics

Tool

Related Terms

Tools (3 Occurrences)

Graving (7 Occurrences)

Feed (117 Occurrences)

Axe (19 Occurrences)

Gouge (4 Occurrences)

Wield (8 Occurrences)

Float (4 Occurrences)

Edge (150 Occurrences)

Drift (1 Occurrence)