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Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

License: Public Domain

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Comments: Bronze axe head. Cyprus, 2400-1350 B.C.

 

Credit: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum

License: CC BY-SA 2.0

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Comments: Cast copper alloy socketed axe dating from the Early Iron Age that is c. 800-600BC.

 

Credit: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China

License: CC0 1.0

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Ancient Egypt Bronze & Wood Battle Axe, New Kingdom. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.

 

From Easton: Axe is used in the Authorized Version of Deuteronomy 19:5; Deuteronomy 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping." It was used for felling trees (Isaiah 10:34) and hewing timber for building. It is the rendering of a different word in Judges 9:48, 1 Samuel 13:20, 1 Samuel 13:21, Psalms 74:5, which refers to its sharpness. In 2 Kings 6:5 it is the translation of a word used with reference to its being made of iron. In Isaiah 44:12 the Revised Version renders by "axe" the Hebrew _maatsad_, which means a "hewing" instrument. In the Authorized Version it is rendered "tongs." It is also used in Jeremiah 10:3, and rendered "axe." The "battle-axe" (army of Medes and Persians) mentioned in Jeremiah 51:20 was probably, as noted in the margin of the Revised Version, a "maul" or heavy mace. In Psalms 74:6 the word so rendered means "feller." (See the figurative expression in Matthew 3:10; Luke 3:9.)

Verses:

  • Deuteronomy 19:5
  • Judges 9:48
  • 1 Samuel 13:20
  • 1 Samuel 13:21
  • 2 Samuel 12:31
  • 1 Kings 6:7
  • 2 Kings 6:5
  • 2 Kings 6:6
  • 2 Kings 23:35
  • 1 Chronicles 20:3
  • Psalms 74:5
  • Psalms 74:6
  • Isaiah 44:12
  • Jeremiah 46:22
  • Ezekiel 26:9
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​a/axe.html. 2024.
 
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