KJV King James Version
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Samuel 13:21
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
ASV American Standard Version
yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 13
18 And another company turned the way [to] Bethhoron: and another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears:
20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
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וְֽהָיְתָ֞הH1961 · ha.yahto beהַפְּצִ֣ירָהH6477 · pe.tsi.rahbluntnessפִ֗יםH6310 · pehlipלַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙H4281 · ma.cha.re.shahplowshareוְלָ֣אֵתִ֔יםH855 · etplowshareוְלִשְׁלֹ֥שׁH7969 · sha.loshthreeקִלְּשׁ֖וֹןH7053 · qil.l.shonforkוּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּ֑יםH7134 · qar.domaxeוּלְהַצִּ֖יבH5324 · na.tsavto standהַדָּרְבָֽן׃H1861 · dor.vongoad
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