KJV dictionary & concordance
A hand tool used for digging, breaking, clearing, or cultivating the ground.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Samuel 13:20
Complete exact-word concordance
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
But all the Israelites went downe to the Philistines, to sharpen euery man his share and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattocke.
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
And on all hilles that shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shall not come thither the feare of briars and thornes: but it shall bee for the sending foorth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattell.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A tool to grub up weeds or roots; a grubbing hoe.
