Hoe

A tool with a flat metal blade and a long wooden handle, used for loosening soil and removing weeds.

Man using a hoe
Man using a hoe (Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, MMA) Hoe

About Hoe

The hoe was a flat metal blade, 10–20 centimeters (4–8 inches) wide, mounted on a wooden handle with the blade at a right angle to the handle. The illustration to the left shows the blade without a handle.

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Key References

Isaiah 7:25

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

1 Samuel 13:20

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

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Isaiah 7:25

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.