Strong's #8150: shanan (pronounced shaw-nan')

a primitive root; to point (transitive or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively, to inculcate:--prick, sharp(-en), teach diligently, whet.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shânan

1) to sharpen, whet

1a) (Qal) to whet, sharpen

1b) (Piel) to sharpen, teach (incisively)

1c) (Hithpolel) to be pierced

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Deuteronomy 6:7: " And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down,"
Deuteronomy 32:41: "If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render"
Psalms 45:5: "Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under"
Psalms 64:3: "Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:"
Psalms 73:21: "Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins."
Psalms 120:4: " Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper."
Psalms 140:3: " They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips."
Proverbs 25:18: "against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow."
Isaiah 5:28: "Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hooves"