ma.cha.re.shah denotes an agricultural implement mentioned among tools brought for sharpening and subject to a sharpening fee.

The attested use names an agricultural implement in a list of tools taken for sharpening and in a statement of the fee charged for sharpening such implements.

1. Agricultural implement requiring sharpening · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 13:20, the singular construct form occurs in the clause about each man going down to have his tools sharpened; the APB renders the list with “his plowshare and his mattock and his axe and his hoe.” In 1 Samuel 13:21, the plural absolute form occurs in the statement of a sharpening fee; the APB again includes “the plowshares” among the implements.

   1 Samuel 13:201 Samuel 13:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “plowshare” in 1 Samuel 13:20 and “plowshares” in 1 Samuel 13:21, within lists of implements connected with sharpening. These renderings confirm the verse context rather than establish a finer distinction.