saw
me.ge.rah is a cutting implement named in tool lists and in the dressing of building stones.
The attested use identifies a cutting implement: it occurs among iron tools in accounts concerning Ammonite cities and in a clause describing dressed stones cut for construction.
Senses in use
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Cutting implement in work and construction · dominant
The supplied forms are tagged as common feminine singular absolute. In 2 Samuel 12:31 and 1 Chronicles 20:3, the term stands in clauses listing it with iron cutting tools; the APB renders the respective clauses with “saws.” In 1 Kings 7:9, it occurs in the description of dressed stones, where the APB renders them as “sawn with the saw.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB presents the term as “saws” in tool lists and as “the saw” in the stone-dressing clause. These renderings confirm the verses' tool-and-cutting context rather than establish a finer distinction.