Strong's #3913: latash (pronounced law-tash')

a primitive root; properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen:--instructer, sharp(-en), whet.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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lâṭash

1) to sharpen, hammer, whet

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to hammer

1a2) to sharpen (sword)

1a3) hammerer (participle)

1b) (Pual) to be sharpened

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 4:22: "bore Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron:"
1 Samuel 13:20: "the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his colter,"
Job 16:9: "upon me with his teeth; sharpeneth his eyes"
Psalms 7:12: "If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent and made it ready."
Psalms 52:2: "Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working"