KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense or past-participial form of sharpen (to make sharp, keen, pointed, or more acute).
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 140:3
Complete exact-word concordance
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
They haue sharpned their tongues like a serpent: adders poison is vnder their lips. Selah.
1611 marginal noteRom.3.14 psal.58.5.
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus sayth the LORD, Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also fourbished.
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.
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is fourbished, that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? It contemneth the rod of my sonne, as euery tree.
1611 marginal noteOr, it is the rod of my sonne, it despiseth euery tree.
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.
And he hath giuen it to be fourbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is fourbished to giue it into the hand of the slayer.
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