Lexical Definition

‎קַרְדֹּם‎ qardôm (kar-dome') axe ^H:N-M
perhaps from ‎קָדַם‎ in the sense of striking upon

ax.

• an axe

1) axe

See Greek: ἀξίνη

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎קַרְדֹּם‎] noun [masculine] axe (√ unknown; compare Late Hebrew ‎קַרְדֹּם‎ double hoe,one side of which could split wood, Vogelst^{Land writhsch.37}; Arabic , adze is loan-word according to Frä⁸⁴); — suffix ‎קַרְדֻמּוֺ‎ 1Sam 13:20 + Judg 9:48 (so probably read for ‎הַקַּרְדֻּמוֺתּ‎, A ᵐ5^L τ. ἀξίνημ, GFM Bu Now); plural ‎קַרְדֻּמִּים‎ 1Sam 13:21, ‎קַרְדֻּמוֺת‎ Jer 46:22; Ps 74:5

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