Hammer: 1. Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters
(Isaiah 41:7) and by quarry-men(Jeremiah 23:29) Metaphorically of Babylon
(Jeremiah 50:23) or
Nebuchadnezzar.
2. Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet
(1 Kings 6:7) or of any workman
(Judges 4:21; Isaiah 44:12)
3. Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only
in
(Judges 5:26) where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of
the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.
4. Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in
(Jeremiah 51:20) This was
properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The
Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have
been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of
metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very
beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the
lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness."
