Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Ezekiel 21:11
And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
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חָדַד
châdad · khaw-dad'
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, make) sharp or (figuratively) severe
Strong's KJV usage: be fierce, sharpen.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 21:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:11
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shânan · shaw-nan'
1 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 140:3Strong's last: Psalms 140:3
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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
H2300
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
H2300
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
H2300
And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
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sharpen
SHARPEN, verb transitive
1. To make sharp; to give a keen edge or a fine point to a thing; to edge; to point; as, to sharpen a knife, an ax or the teeth of a saw; to sharpen a sword.
All of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter, and his ax and his mattock. 1 Samuel 8:1.
2. To make more eager or active; as, to sharpen the edge of industry.
3. To make more pungent and painful. The abuse of wealth and greatness may hereafter sharpen the sting of conscience.
4. To make more quick, acute or ingenious. The wit or the intellect is sharpened by study.
5. To render perception more quick or acute.
Th' air sharpen'd his visual ray
To objects distant far. Milton.
6. To render more keen; to make more eager for food or for any gratification; as, to sharpen the appetite; to sharpen a desire.
7. To make biting, sarcastic or severe. Sharpen each word.
8. To render less flat, or more shrill or piercing.
Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it. Bacon.
9. To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
10. To make more distressing; as, to sharpen grief or other evis.
11. In music, to raise a sound by means of a sharp.
SH'ARPEN, verb intransitive To grow or become sharp.
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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