1 Samuel 13:21
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So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.

1 Samuel 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.

1 Samuel 13:22
And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.

Zechariah 13:8
And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in it shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be left therein.

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So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.

a file [heb] a file with mouths

Context
Israel Without Weapons
20So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake. 21So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.22And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.…
Lexicon
The charge
הַפְּצִ֣ירָה (hap·pə·ṣî·rāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6477: Perhaps bluntness

was
וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה (wə·hā·yə·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a pim
פִ֗ים (p̄îm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

for the plowshares
לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙ (lam·ma·ḥă·rê·šōṯ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4281: A plowshare

and mattocks,
וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔ים (wə·lā·’ê·ṯîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 855: A hoe, other digging implement

and a third [of a pim]
וְלִשְׁלֹ֥שׁ (wə·liš·lōš)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7969: Three, third, thrice

for the pitchforks
קִלְּשׁ֖וֹן (qil·lə·šō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7053: Perhaps fine point

and axes
וּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּ֑ים (ū·lə·haq·qar·dum·mîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7134: An axe

and for repointing
וּלְהַצִּ֖יב (ū·lə·haṣ·ṣîḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 5324: To take one's stand, stand

an oxgoad.
הַדָּרְבָֽן׃ (had·dā·rə·ḇān)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1861: A goad


Additional Translations
The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an ax, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.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.

yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

And it was near the time of vintage: and their tools were valued at three shekels for a plough-share, and there was the same rate for the axe and the sickle.

when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.

yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes; and to set the goads.

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.
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