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Strong’s Hebrew

H3913 — latash

The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.

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לָטַשׁ

latash — pronounced law-tash

a primitive root; properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen:--instructer, sharp(-en), whet.

5 occurrences in the KJV.

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

1 Samuel 13:20

But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

Job 16:9

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

Psalms 7:12

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Psalms 52:2

The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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