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 in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"
If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.
At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time." So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
And this was the number of them: basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers,
and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.
"And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.
He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your 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 in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"
Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion. For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time."
And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot.
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 in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"
At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time."
And this was the number of them: basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers,
As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot.
"And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing 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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Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion. For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it.
He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.
Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and the right thigh,
And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar.
"All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
"And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.
And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration,
But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.
And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot.
"And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.