Plough

A tool with a triangular metal blade used to break up soil for farming.

About Plough

“Plowshare” (macharesheth): Some commentators have suggested that this first word in the list is a general term, meaning “tools for working the soil.” What follow would then be separate instruments, including the machareshah, which appears in Hebrew with exactly the same consonants, made different only by the vowel points. This interpretation is, however, far from certain.

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Key References

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.

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1 Samuel (2)
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.