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 sacrifice and laid it upon Isaac his son, and took fire in his hand and a knife. And they went both of them together.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to have killed his son.
Then Zipporah took a stone and circumcised her son, and fell at his feet, and said, "A bloody husband art thou unto me."
But and if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, see thou make it not of hewed stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou shalt pollute it.
That same time the LORD said unto Joshua, "Make thee knives of stone, and go to again and circumcise the children of Israel the second time." And Joshua made him knives of stone and circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of foreskins.
And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, and a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Measure thine appetite:
This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.
For before the harvest, when the branch is grown, there shall come ripe fruit out of the flower: and he shall cut down the increase with the scythes, and the branches shall he take away with hooks.
but commanded Jerahmeel the son of Amalek, and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to lay hands on Baruch the Scribe, and upon Jeremiah the Prophet: but the LORD kept them out of sight.
O Thou son of man, take thee then a sharp knife, namely a razor. Take that, and shave the hair of thy head and beard: Then take the scales and weight, and divide the hair asunder.
His slings and battle-rams shall he prepare for thy walls, and with his weapons 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 sacrifice and laid it upon Isaac his son, and took fire in his hand and a knife. And they went both of them together.
Then Zipporah took a stone and circumcised her son, and fell at his feet, and said, "A bloody husband art thou unto me."
And the same that offereth the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right shoulder unto his part, for the wavebreast and the heaveshoulder I have taken of the children of Israel, even of their peace offerings, and have given it unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons: to be a duty forever of the children of Israel."
That same time the LORD said unto Joshua, "Make thee knives of stone, and go to again and circumcise the children of Israel the second time."
And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them.
And when Jehudi had read three or four leaves thereof, he cut the book in pieces with a pen knife, and cast it into the fire upon the hearth, until the book was all burnt in the fire upon the hearth.
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 sacrifice and laid it upon Isaac his son, and took fire in his hand and a knife. And they went both of them together.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to have killed his son.
Then Zipporah took a stone and circumcised her son, and fell at his feet, and said, "A bloody husband art thou unto me."
That same time the LORD said unto Joshua, "Make thee knives of stone, and go to again and circumcise the children of Israel the second time."
And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, and a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty knives,
And when Jehudi had read three or four leaves thereof, he cut the book in pieces with a pen knife, and cast it into the fire upon the hearth, until the book was all burnt in the fire upon the hearth.
O Thou son of man, take thee then a sharp knife, namely a razor. Take that, and shave the hair of thy head and beard: Then take the scales and weight, and divide the hair asunder.
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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And the same that offereth the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right shoulder unto his part, for the wavebreast and the heaveshoulder I have taken of the children of Israel, even of their peace offerings, and have given it unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons: to be a duty forever of the children of Israel."
And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger and purified it, and poured the blood unto the bottom of the altar and sanctified it and reconciled it.
and cut the ram in pieces and burnt the head, the pieces and the fat,
And he took the fat and the rump and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat and their right shoulder.
And they brought the burnt offering unto him in pieces and the head also, and he burnt it upon the altar,
And as long as the vow of his abstinence endureth, there shall no razor nor shears come upon his head, until his days be out which he fasteth unto the LORD, and he shall be holy and shall let the locks of his hair grow.
"'And if it fortune that any man, by chance, die suddenly before him and defile the head of his abstinence, then must he shave his head the day of his cleansing: even the seventh day he shall shave it.
Then the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram and one sweet cake out of the basket and one sweet wafer also and put them in the hand of the abstainer after he hath shaven his abstinence off,
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wavebreast and all the right shoulder is thine.
And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them.
For before the harvest, when the branch is grown, there shall come ripe fruit out of the flower: and he shall cut down the increase with the scythes, and the branches shall he take away with hooks.
And when Jehudi had read three or four leaves thereof, he cut the book in pieces with a pen knife, and cast it into the fire upon the hearth, until the book was all burnt in the fire upon the hearth.
O Thou son of man, take thee then a sharp knife, namely a razor. Take that, and shave the hair of thy head and beard: Then take the scales and weight, and divide the hair asunder.