# מַחֲרֵשָׁה (machareshah)

Israeli respelling: ma-cha-re-shah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4281. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

probably a pick-axe

King James renderings: mattock.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/machareshah-h4281

## Occurrences

- [1 Samuel 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/20) — But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
- [1 Samuel 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/21) — Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.