Hammer in Biblical History

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What is a Hammer?
HAM'MER
, the English translation of four different Hebrew words. The hammers mentioned by Isaiah, Is 44:12 "seem to have been the heaviest instruments of the kind for hard blows." Jael's hammer, Jud 4:21, was properly a mallet, such as the Bedouin use at the present day to drive the wooden tent-pins into the ground. The "battle-axe," Jer 51:20, and the "maul," Prov 25:18, were species of hammers used for warlike purposes. The tool probably resembled that of the present day. The word "hammer" is also used symbolically for mighty force. Jer 23:29; Jer 50:23.

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