לָטַשׁ lâṭash — properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen
Translated in the KJV as instructer, sharp, whet.
a primitive root; properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen.
lâṭash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1
And Zillah, she also bare Tubal–cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal–cain was Naamah.
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›