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Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

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Credit: Stemonitis

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Comments: Close-up of the head of a cutter mattock, with the adze side downwards, embedded in a lawn

 

Credit: The Portable Antiquities Scheme

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Comments: An incomplete Bronze Age red deer (Cervus elaphus) antler Base Axe mattock dating from 3000-1000 BC.

 

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Comments: From left to right: bronze Sumerian-style dagger from Lorestan Province, Iran (ca. 900 BCE, RC 1716); 3 bronze daggers from near Rudbar, Gilan Province, Iran (ca. 900 BCE, RC 1898, 1899, 1902). Bronze axe head and mattock (ca. 1000 BCE, RC 1023, 1024). On display at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California.

 

From Easton: (1.) Heb. ma'eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning a vineyard (Isaiah 7:25); a weeding-hoe.

(2.) Heb. mahareshah (1 Samuel 13:21), perhaps the ploughshare or coulter.

(3.) Heb. herebh, marg. of text (2 Chronicles 34:6). Authorized Version, "with their mattocks," marg. "mauls." The Revised Version renders "in their ruins," marg. "with their axes." The Hebrew text is probably corrupt.

Verses:

  • 1 Samuel 13:20
  • 1 Samuel 13:21
  • 2 Chronicles 34:6
  • Isaiah 7:25
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​m/mattock.html. 2024.
 
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