Reference: Knife
Easton
(1.) Heb hereb, "the waster," a sharp instrument for circumcision (Jos 5:2-3, lit. "knives of flint;" comp. Ex 4:25); a razor (Eze 5:1); a graving tool (Ex 20:25); an axe (Eze 26:9).
(2.) Heb maakeleth, a large knife for slaughtering and cutting up food (Ge 22:6,10; Pr 30:14).
(3.) Heb sakkin, a knife for any purpose, a table knife (Pr 23:2).
(4.) Heb mahalaph, a butcher's knife for slaughtering the victims offered in sacrifice (Ezr 1:9).
(5.) Smaller knives (Heb ta'ar, Jer 36:26) were used for sharpening pens. The pruning-knives mentioned in Isa 18:5 (Heb mizmaroth) were probably curved knives.
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both of them together.
And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me!
And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy sharp tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.
At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. And Joshua made him stone-knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of Araloth.
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine-and-twenty knives,
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away and cut down the branches.
And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife; a barber's razor shalt thou take; and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
and he shall set his engines of attack against thy walls, and with his spikes he shall break down thy towers.
Fausets
Originally of flakes of stone or flint, which was retained for sacred purposes as circumcision, even after the introduction of bronze, iron, and steel (Ex 4:25; Jos 5:2, margin). The Egyptians never used bronze or steel in preparing the mummies, stone being regarded as purer and more sacred. Used little at meals, but for slaughtering animals and cutting up carcass (Ge 22:6; Le 7:33-34). Also by scribes for making and mending the reed pen (Jer 36:23, "penknife"; see also 1Ki 18:28). (See CIVILIZATION; JOSHUA.)
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both of them together.
Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me!
He of the sons of Aaron that presenteth the blood of the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. For the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering, have I taken of the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons from the children of Israel by an everlasting statute.
At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and spears, till the blood gushed out upon them.
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
Hastings
Of the various sorts of knives noticed in the OT mention may be made of the flint knives used for the rite of circumcision (Jos 5:2 f., cf. Ex 4:25)
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both of them together.
And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me!
At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine-and-twenty knives,
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife; a barber's razor shalt thou take; and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Smith
Knife.
1. The knives of the Egyptians, and of other nations in early times, were probably only of hard stone, and the use of the flint or stone knife was sometimes retained for sacred purposes after the introduction of iron and steel.
2. In their meals the Jews, like other Orientals, made little use of knives, but they were required both for slaughtering animals, either for food or sacrifice, and for cutting up the carcass.
Le 7:33-34; 8:15,20,25; 9:13; Nu 18:18; 1Sa 9:24
etc.
3. Smaller knives were in use for paring fruit (Josephus) and for sharpening pens.
4. The razor was often used for Nazarite purposes, for which a special chamber was reserved in the temple.
, etc.
5. The pruning-hooks of
were probably curved knives.
6. The lancets of the priests of Baal were doubtless pointed knives.
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He of the sons of Aaron that presenteth the blood of the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. For the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering, have I taken of the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons from the children of Israel by an everlasting statute.
and he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and cleansed the altar from sin, and the blood he poured at the bottom of the altar, and hallowed it, making atonement for it.
And the ram he cut up into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat;
And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the inwards, and the net of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right shoulder;
And they delivered the burnt-offering to him, in the pieces thereof, and the head; and he burned them on the altar.
All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, that he hath consecrated himself to Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
And if any one die unexpectedly by him suddenly, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day shall he shave it.
And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after he hath shaven the hair of his consecration.
And their flesh shall be thine; as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder shall it be thine.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and spears, till the blood gushed out upon them.
For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away and cut down the branches.
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife; a barber's razor shalt thou take; and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.