Wedge
Bible Usage:
- wedge used 3 times.
- First Reference: Joshua 7:21
- Last Reference: Isaiah 13:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
WEDGE, noun [This word signifies a mass, a lump.]
1. A mass of metal; as a wedge of gold or silver. Joshua 7:21.
2. A piece of metal, particularly iron, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc. This is one of the five mechanical powers. A like piece of wood is by some persons called a wedge or a glut.
3. Something in the form of a wedge Sometimes bodies of troops are drawn up in the form of a wedge
WEDGE, verb transitive
1. To cleave with a wedge; to rive. [Little used.]
2. To drive as a wedge is drive; to crowd or compress closely. We were wedged in by the crowd.
3. To force, as a wedge forces its way; as, to wedge ones way.
4. To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; as, to wedge on a sythe; to wedge in a rail or a piece of timber.
5. To fix in the manner of a wedge
Wedgd in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.
WEDGED, participle passive Split with a wedge; fastened with a wedge; closely compressed.
WEDGE-SHAPED, adjective [wedge and shape.] Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform. A wedge-shaped leaf is broad and abrupt at the summit, and tapering down to the base.
Bible Usage:
- wedge used 3 times.
- First Reference: Joshua 7:21
- Last Reference: Isaiah 13:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: