Strong’s H3979 · Hebrew
מַאֲכֶלֶת
maʼăkeleth · mah-ak-eh'-leth
Origin from אָכַל (H398);
Meaning something to eat with,i.e. a knife
In the King James Version knife.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 22:6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
- Genesis 22:10And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
- Judges 19:29And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.