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And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
Read in context →And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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mᵉgêrâh · meg-ay-raw'
a saw
Strong's KJV usage: axe, saw.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 12:31Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 20:3
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And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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SAW, preterit tense of see.
SAW, noun [See the Verb.]
1. A cutting instrument consisting of a blade or thin plate of iron or steel, with one edge dentated or toothed.
2. A saying; proverb; maxim; decree. obsolete [See Say.]
SAW, verb transitive preterit tense sawed; participle passive sawed or sawn. [Latin seco; ]
1. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
2. To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw timber into boards or planks.
SAW, verb intransitive
1. To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
2. To cut with a saw; as, the mill saws fast or well.
3. To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smooth.
SAW'-DUST, noun Dust or small fragments of wood or stone made by the attrition of a saw
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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