BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3802
ka.teph — shoulder
1) shoulder, shoulder-blade, side, slope 1a) shoulder, shoulder-blade (of man) 1b) shoulder, shoulder-pieces (of animals) 1c) side, slope (of mountain) 1d) supports (of laver)
41 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8025
sha.laph — to draw
1) to draw out or off, take off 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to draw out 1a2) to draw off 1a3) to shoot up, draw out (of blade of grass on roof)
24 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7926
she.khem — shoulder
1) shoulder, back 1a) shoulder, shoulder-blade 1b) back (in general) Also means: shikh.mah (שִׁכְמָה "shoulder" H7929)
21 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3851
la.hav — flame
1) flame, blade 1a) flame 1b) of flashing point of spear or blade of sword
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4079
pēdalion — rudder
πηδάλιον, -συ, τό (πηδός, the blade of an oar), a rudder: Jas.3:4; pl., Act.27:40.† (AS)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7929
shikh.mah — shoulder
1) shoulder, back 1a) shoulder, shoulder-blade 1b) back (in general)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8426
xiphos — a knife-blade
a sword , (Homer); distinguished from μάχαιρα, q. see. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8685
pelekus — a hewing axe
1. an axe for felling trees, with two edges, opposite to the ἡμιπέλεκκον, (Homer) 2. a sacrificial axe , (Homer)—;That it was not, properly, a battle axe appears from the phrase, οὐ δόρασι μάχεσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ πελέκεσι to fight not with spears only, but with common axes , i. e. to the last, (Herdotus Historicus) 3. in (Theophrastus Philosophus) Char., πέλεκυς as a child's nickname seems to mean a sharp blade. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Applied to the glittering point of a spear (Job 39:23) or sword (Nah. 3:3), the blade of a dagger (Judg. 3:22); the “shoulder blade” (Job 31:22); the “blade” of cereals (Matt. 13:26).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
