plowshare

«plowshare» in Mova's judaism dictionary: The blade of a plow that cuts the soil — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The blade of a plow that cuts the soil. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Joel calls on nations to turn plowshares into swords for war; Isaiah and Micah reverse it into peace. Samuel notes the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to sharpen theirs. Interpretation: The reversed saying, swords into plowshares, is a famous Jewish vision of a time when nations will no longer learn war.

examples

• Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.' (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. (Prophets 1SA.13.20, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

In the corpora

• Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «plowshare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.