Topic
Coulter
5 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- 1 Samuel 13:20Easton
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
- 1 Samuel 13:21Easton
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.
- Isaiah 2:4Easton
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
- Joel 3:10Easton
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
- Micah 4:3Easton
¶ And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
(1 Sam. 13:20, 21), an agricultural instrument, elsewhere called “ploughshare” (Isa. 2:4; Micah 4:3; Joel 3:10). It was the facing-piece of a plough, analogous to the modern coulter.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
kol'-ter.
See PLOW.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.