. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ptian awl was much like thewell-known modern instrument. Medicine. Ax or Axe. Seven Hebrew words are translatedax (thus spelled in the English authorized edi-tions) in the A.V.— 1. Garzcn, from a root signifyingto cut or sever. It consisted of a head of iron (com-pare Is. x. 34), fastened, with thongs or otherwise,upon a handle of wood, and so liable to slip off(Deut. xix. 5 ; compare 2 K. vi. 5). It was used forfelling trees (Deut. xx. 19; Is. x. 15), and also forshaping the wood when felled, perhaps like themodern adze (1 K. vi. 7).—2. Hereb or chc
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. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ptian awl was much like thewell-known modern instrument. Medicine. Ax or Axe. Seven Hebrew words are translatedax (thus spelled in the English authorized edi-tions) in the A.V.— 1. Garzcn, from a root signifyingto cut or sever. It consisted of a head of iron (com-pare Is. x. 34), fastened, with thongs or otherwise, upon a handle of wood, and so liable to slip off(Deut. xix. 5 ; compare 2 K. vi. 5). It was used forfelling trees (Deut. xx. 19; Is. x. 15), and also forshaping the wood when felled, perhaps like themodern adze (1 K. vi. 7).—2. Hereb or chcreb, usually translated sword (Arms), is used ofother cutting instruments, as a knife (Josh. v.2) or razor (Ez. v. 1), or a tool for hewing ordressing stones (Ex. xx. 25), and is once translated ax (Ez. xxvi. 9), evidently denoting a weaponfor destroying buildings, a pick-axe.—3. Cashxhiloccurs but once (Ps. lxxiv. 6), and is evidently alater word, denoting a large axe. —4. Magzerdh (2Sam. xii. 31), and, 5, Megirdh (1 Chr. xx. 3) are. Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian Axes.—(Fbn.)1, 2, 3, Egyptian.—WiluinBon. 4, 5, Assyrian.—British Mnsenm. found in the description of the punishments inflictedby David upon the Ammonites of Rabbah. The lat-ter word is properly a saw, and is probably a copy-ists error for the former.—6. Maalsdd, translatedax in Is. xliv. 12 (marg.), and Jer. x. 3, was aninstrument employed both by the iron-smith and thecarpenter, and is supposed to be a curved knife orbill, smaller than—7. Karde/m, which was a largeaxe used for felling trees (Judjr. ix. 48 ; 1 Sam. xiii. AXL AZA 85 20, 21; Ps. Ixxiv. 5; Jer xlvi. 2-2).—The battle-ax (Heb. moppets, Jer. li. 20) was probably aheavy mace or maul, like that which gave his Frenchsurname to Charles Mattel.—The Gr. axhie, trans-lated ax in the N. T. (Mat. iii. 10; Lk. lii. 9), isused in the LXX. for the Heb. yarzen (No. 1, above)