Exodus 4:25
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
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Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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ὀξύς
oxýs · oz-oos'
7 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
keen; by analogy, rapid
Strong's KJV usage: :--sharp, swift.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 1:16Strong's last: Revelation 19:15
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chad · khad
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
sharp
Strong's KJV usage: sharp.
Strong's first: Psalms 57:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 5:1
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shânan · shaw-nan'
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to point (transitive or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively, to inculcate
Strong's KJV usage: prick, sharp(-en), teach diligently, whet.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 45:5Strong's last: Isaiah 5:28
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tsûwr · tsoor
2 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
Strong's KJV usage: edge, × (mighty) God (one), rock, × sharp, stone, × strength, × strong. See also 1049.
Strong's first: Joshua 5:2Strong's last: Joshua 5:3
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shên · shane
2 times translated as this KJV form55 total Strong's occurrences
a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff
Strong's KJV usage: crag, × forefront, ivory, × sharp, tooth.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 14:4Strong's last: 1 Samuel 14:4
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chaddûwd · khad-dood'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a point
Strong's KJV usage: sharp.
Strong's first: Job 41:30Strong's last: Job 41:30
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chărûwts · khaw-roots'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
properly, incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager
Strong's KJV usage: decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 41:15Strong's last: Isaiah 41:15
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lâṭash · law-tash'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen
Strong's KJV usage: instructer, sharp(-en), whet.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 52:2Strong's last: Psalms 52:2
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Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
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sharp
SH'ARP, adjective
1. Having a very thin edge or a fine point; keen; acute; not blunt. Thus we may say, a sharp knife, or a sharp needle. A sharp edge easily severs a substance; a sharp point is easily made to penetrate, it.
2. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse; as, a hills terminates in a sharp peak, or a sharp ridge.
3. Forming an acute or too small angle at the ridge; as a sharp roof.
4. Acute of mind; quick to discern or distinguish; penetrating; ready at invention; witty; ingenious.
Nothing makes men sharper than want. Addison.
Many other things belong to the material world, wherein the sharpest philosophers have not yet obtained clear ideas. Watts.
5. Being of quick or nice perception; applied to the senses or organs of perception; as a sharp eye; sharp sight.
6. Affecting the organs of taste like fine points; piercing; penetrating; shrill; as sharp vinegar; sharp tasted citrons.
7. Affecting the organs of hearing like sharp points; poercing; penetrating; shrill; as a sharp sound or voice; a sharp not or tone; opposed to a flat note or sound.
8. Severe; harsh; biting; sarcastic; as sharp words; sharp rebuke.
-Be thy words severe,
Sharp as he merits; but the sword forbear. Dryden.
9. Severely rigid; quick or severe in punishing; cruel.
To that place the sharp Athenian law
Cannot pursue us. Shak.
10. Eager for food; keen; as a sharp appetite.
11. Eager in pursuit; deen in quest,
My faulchion now is sharp and passing empty. Shak.
12. Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; as a sharp contest.
A sharp assault already is begun. Dryden.
13. Keen; severe; pungent; as sharp pain.
14. Very painful or distressing; as sharp tribulation; a sharp fit of the gout.
15. Very attentive or vigilant.
Sharp at her utmost ken she cast her eyes. Dryden.
16. Making nice calculations of profit; or close and exact in making bargains or demanding dues.
17. Biting; pinching; piercing; as sharp air; sharp wind or weather.
18. Subtil; nice; witty; acute; used of things; as a sharp discourse.
19. Among workmen, hard; as sharp sand.
20. Emanciated; lean; thin; as a sharp visage.
To brace sharp, in seamanship, to turn the yards to the most oblique position possible, that the ship may lay well up to the wind.
SH'ARP, noun
1. In music, an acute sound.
2. A note artificially raised a semitone; or,
3. The character which directs the note to be thus elevated; opposed to a flat, which depresses a note a semitone.
4. A pointed weapon. [Not in use.]
SH'ARP, verb transitive
1. To make keen or acute.
2. To render quick.
3. To mark with a sharp in musical composition; or to raise a not a semitone.
SH'ARP, verb intransitive To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
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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