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 a knife. And they both went together.
And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
And Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband you are to me.
And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stone. For if you lift up your tool upon it, you have defiled it.
At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make sharp knives for yourselves and circumcise the sons of Israel again, the second time. And Joshua made sharp knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
and put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, 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 seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But Jehovah hid them.
And you, son of man, take a sharp sword to yourself, take a barber's razor also, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard. Then take scales to weigh, and divide the hair.
And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall 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 the fire in his hand, and a knife. And they both went together.
And Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband you are to me.
He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the heave shoulder from the sons of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons by a statute forever from among the sons of Israel.
At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make sharp knives for yourselves and circumcise the sons of Israel again, the second time.
And they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves with knives and spears until the blood gushed out on them, as is their way.
And it happened when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's knife and threw it into the fire in the fire-pan, until all the scroll was burned up in the fire-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 a knife. And they both went together.
And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
And Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband you are to me.
At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make sharp knives for yourselves and circumcise the sons of Israel again, the second time.
And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
And it happened when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's knife and threw it into the fire in the fire-pan, until all the scroll was burned up in the fire-pan.
And you, son of man, take a sharp sword to yourself, take a barber's razor also, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard. Then take scales 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 among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the heave shoulder from the sons of Israel, from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons by a statute forever from among the sons of Israel.
And he killed it. And Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement on it.
And he cut the ram into 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 on the inward parts, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder.
And they presented the burnt offering to him, with the pieces of it, and the head. And he burned them on the altar.
All the days of his vow to separate, no razor shall come upon his head. Until all the days are fulfilled in which he separates to Jehovah, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he has defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day he shall 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 on the hands of the Nazarite, after his separation has been shaved.
And their flesh shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.
And they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves with knives and spears until the blood gushed out on them, as is their way.
For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
And it happened when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the scribe's knife and threw it into the fire in the fire-pan, until all the scroll was burned up in the fire-pan.
And you, son of man, take a sharp sword to yourself, take a barber's razor also, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard. Then take scales to weigh, and divide the hair.