KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

1. Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isaiah 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jeremiah 23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon (Jeremiah 50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar.

2. Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (1 Kings 6:7), or of any workman (Judges 4:21; Isaiah 44:12).

3. Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in Judges 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.

4. Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in Jeremiah 51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness."

General references
1 Kings 6:7; Isaiah 41:7; Jeremiah 10:4

Figurative
Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 50:23

HAM'MER, noun An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like. It consists of an iron head, fixed crosswise to a handle. Hammers are of various sizes; a large hammer used by smiths is called a sledge.

HAM'MER, verb transitive To beat with a hammer; as, to hammer iron or steel.

1. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

2. To work in the mind; to contrive by intellectual labor; usually with out; as, to hammer out a scheme.

HAM'MER, verb intransitive To work; to be busy; to labor in contrivance.

1. To be working or in agitation.

HAM'MERABLE, adjective That may be shaped by a hammer.

HAM'MERCLOTH, noun The cloth which covers a coach-box, so called from the old practice of carrying a hammer, nails, etc. in a little pocket hid by this cloth.

HAM'MERED, participle passive Beaten with a hammer.

HAM'MERER, noun One who works with a hammer.

HAM'MERHARD, noun Iron or steel hardened by hammering.

HAM'MERING, participle present tense Beating with a hammer; working; contriving.

HAM'MER-MAN, noun One who beats or works with a hammer.

HAM'MER-WORT, noun An herb.