Meaning of “Axe”

1. Axe — used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping." It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building. It is the rendering of a different word in Judg. 9:48, 1 Sam. 13:20, 21, Ps. 74:5, which refers to its sharpness. In 2 Kings 6:5 it is the translation of a word used with reference to its being made of iron. In Isa. 44:12 the Revised Version renders by "axe" the Hebrew _maatsad_, which means a "hewing" instrument. In the Authorized Version it is rendered "tongs." It is also used in Jer. 10:3, and rendered "axe." The "battle-axe" (army of Medes and Persians) mentioned in Jer. 51:20 was probably, as noted in the margin of the Revised Version, a "maul" or heavy mace. In Ps. 74:6 the word so rendered means "feller." (See the figurative expression in Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9.)

2. Artaxerxes — the Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He was probably the Smerdis of profane history. (2.) The king mentioned in Ezra 7:1, in the seventh year (B.C. 458) of whose reign Ezra led a second colony of Jews back to Jerusalem, was probably Longimanus, who reigned for forty years (B.C. 464-425); the grandson of Darius, who, fourteen years later, permitted Nehemiah to return and rebuild Jerusalem.

3. Battle-axe — a mallet or heavy war-club. Applied metaphorically (Jer. 51:20) to Cyrus, God's instrument in destroying Babylon.

4. Taxes — first mentioned in the command (Ex. 30:11-16) that every Jew from twenty years and upward should pay an annual tax of "half a shekel for an offering to the Lord." This enactment was faithfully observed for many generations (2 Chr. 24:6; Matt. 17:24). Afterwards, when the people had kings to reign over them, they began, as Samuel had warned them (1 Sam. 8:10-18), to pay taxes for civil purposes (1 Kings 4:7; 9:15; 12:4). Such taxes, in increased amount, were afterwards paid to the foreign princes that ruled over them. In the New Testament the payment of taxes, imposed by lawful rulers, is enjoined as a duty (Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Pet. 2:13, 14). Mention is made of the tax (telos) on merchandise and travellers (Matt. 17:25); the annual tax (phoros) on property (Luke 20:22; 23:2); the poll-tax (kensos, "tribute," Matt. 17:25; 22:17; Mark 12:14); and the temple-tax ("tribute money" = two drachmas = half shekel, Matt. 17:24-27; comp. Ex. 30:13). (See TRIBUTE »T0003722.)

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1. Genesis Chapter 18 Verse 12 — Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

2. Genesis Chapter 19 Verse 13 — For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

3. Genesis Chapter 26 Verse 13 — And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

4. Genesis Chapter 41 Verse 56 — And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

5. Exodus Chapter 1 Verse 20 — Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

6. Exodus Chapter 1 Verse 7 — And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

7. Exodus Chapter 16 Verse 21 — And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

8. Exodus Chapter 19 Verse 19 — And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

9. Exodus Chapter 32 Verse 19 — And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

10. Leviticus Chapter 25 Verse 39 — And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

11. Leviticus Chapter 25 Verse 35 — And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

12. Leviticus Chapter 25 Verse 25 — If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

13. Numbers Chapter 11 Verse 23 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

14. Deuteronomy Chapter 8 Verse 4 — Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

15. Deuteronomy Chapter 19 Verse 5 — As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

16. Deuteronomy Chapter 20 Verse 19 — When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

17. Deuteronomy Chapter 29 Verse 5 — And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

18. Deuteronomy Chapter 31 Verse 20 — For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

19. Deuteronomy Chapter 32 Verse 15 — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

20. Joshua Chapter 17 Verse 13 — Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them out.

21. Joshua Chapter 23 Verse 1 — And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

22. Judges Chapter 9 Verse 48 — And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

23. 1 Samuel Chapter 2 Verse 5 — They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

24. 1 Samuel Chapter 13 Verse 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.

25. 1 Samuel Chapter 13 Verse 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.

26. 2 Samuel Chapter 3 Verse 1 — Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

27. 2 Samuel Chapter 12 Verse 31 — And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

28. 2 Samuel Chapter 21 Verse 15 — Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

29. 1 Kings Chapter 6 Verse 7 — And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

30. 2 Kings Chapter 4 Verse 34 — And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

31. 2 Kings Chapter 6 Verse 5 — But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

32. 2 Kings Chapter 23 Verse 35 — And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.

33. 1 Chronicles Chapter 11 Verse 9 — So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.

34. 1 Chronicles Chapter 20 Verse 3 — And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

35. 2 Chronicles Chapter 13 Verse 21 — But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

36. 2 Chronicles Chapter 17 Verse 12 — And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

37. 2 Chronicles Chapter 24 Verse 15 — But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

38. Ezra Chapter 4 Verse 23 — Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

39. Ezra Chapter 4 Verse 11 — This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

40. Ezra Chapter 4 Verse 8 — Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:

41. Ezra Chapter 4 Verse 7 — And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

42. Ezra Chapter 6 Verse 14 — And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

43. Ezra Chapter 7 Verse 21 — And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

44. Ezra Chapter 7 Verse 12 — Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.

45. Ezra Chapter 7 Verse 11 — Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.

46. Ezra Chapter 7 Verse 7 — And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

47. Ezra Chapter 7 Verse 1 — Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

48. Ezra Chapter 8 Verse 1 — These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

49. Nehemiah Chapter 2 Verse 1 — And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

50. Nehemiah Chapter 5 Verse 14 — Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

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