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H3913 לָטַשׁ (lâṭash) law-tash'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen

KJV Usage: instructer, sharp(-en), whet

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

לָטַשׁ (la.tash) — to sharpen. 1) to sharpen, hammer, whet 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hammer 1a2) to sharpen (sword) 1a3) hammerer (participle) 1b) (Pual) to be sharpened

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb

Shape | verb qal

to hammer, to forge = causative action by which humans use a hammer to shape iron and other metals

GEN 4:22

Shape | verb qal, verb pu'al

to sharpen, to whet literally: to hammer; hence: = causative action by which humans use an iron tool to cause an object to have a thin cutting edge, ► in order to make it useful and effective as a tool

1SA 13:20 · PSA 7:13 · PSA 52:4

See | verb qal

Collocation: לטשׁ עֵינַים

to give someone a menacing glare literally: to sharpen (one's) eyes; hence: = action by which someone glares at someone in a menacing way

JOB 16:9

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[לָטַשׁ] vb. hammer, sharpen, whet Qal hammer

sharpen sword

Pu. a sharpened razor

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