The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . rent forms and forvarious uses, which occurs in Deut. xix. 1. Gar-zen (Heb. 111^, to cut, Deut. xix:$;xx:ig; i Kings vi:7; Is. x:i5)„ From these pas-sages it appears that this kind was employed infelling trees, and in hewing large timbers forbuilding, The conjecture of Gesenius that in1 Kings V17 it denotes the axe of a stonemason,is by no means conclusive. The first text sup-poses a cas
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . rent forms and forvarious uses, which occurs in Deut. xix. 1. Gar-zen (Heb. 111^, to cut, Deut. xix:$;xx:ig; i Kings vi:7; Is. x:i5)„ From these pas-sages it appears that this kind was employed infelling trees, and in hewing large timbers forbuilding, The conjecture of Gesenius that in1 Kings V17 it denotes the axe of a stonemason,is by no means conclusive. The first text sup-poses a case of the head slipping from the helvein felling a tree. This would suggest that it wasshaped like Fig. 3, which is just the same instru-ment as our common hatchet, and appears to havebeen applied by the ancient Egyptians to the samegeneral use as with us. The reader will observethe contrivance in all the others (wanting in this)of fastening the head to the haft by thongs. 2. Mah-ats-awd (Heb. 1?3?^> a hewing in-strument), rendered tongs in Is. xliv:i2; andaxe, Jer. x :3. From these passages it appearsto have been a lighter implement than the former,or a kind of adze, used for fashioning or carving. wood into shape; it was, probably, therefore, likeFigs. 4 to 7, which the Egyptians employed forthi^ purpose. Some texts of Scripture representthem as being employed in carving images—theuse to which the prophets refer. The differencesof form and size, as indicated in the figures, ap-pear to have been determined with reference tolight or heavy work; Fig. 3 is a finer carvingtool.
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