Lexicon latash: to hammer, sharpen, whet Original Word: לָטַשׁPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: latash Phonetic Spelling: (law-tash') Short Definition: sharpen NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto hammer, sharpen, whet NASB Translationforger (1), glares* (1), sharp (1), sharpen (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ לָטַשׁ] verb hammer, sharpen, whet (Late Hebrew id., hammer, tap; Aramaic לְטַשׁ,  sharpen; Arabic  strike, tap); — Qal Imperfect יִלְטוֺשׁ Job 16:9; Psalm 7:13; Infinitive construct לֵלְטוֺשׁ 1 Samuel 13:20; Participle לֹטֵשׁ; — 1 hammer, only Participle = hammerer followed by כָּלתֹֿרֵשׁ Genesis 4:22 (J). 2 sharpen sword חֶרֶב (accusative) Psalm 7:13; compare 1 Samuel 13:20, object מַחֲרֶשֶׁת, אֵת, קַרְדֹּם, מַחֲרֵשָׁה; figurative עֵינַיִם לִי ׳ל Job 16:9 my foe whets his eye for me Pu`al Participle תַּעַר מְלֻטָּשׁ Psalm 52:4 a sharpened razor (in simile of evil tongue). Strong's instructor, sharpen, whet A primitive root; properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. To sharpen -- instructer, sharp(-en), whet. |
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