ma.cha.re.shet denotes a tool or implement brought to the Philistines for sharpening in 1 Samuel 13:20.

The lone attestation places the construct-form noun within a list of implements that Israelites took to the Philistines for sharpening, though the translation does not isolate its specific English equivalent.

1. An implement in a sharpening list · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 13:20, the feminine singular construct form occurs in the clause about Israelites going down to the Philistines; the APB renders the verse as each man going "to sharpen his plowshare and his mattock and his axe and his hoe." The term belongs to this list of implements, but its individual English correspondence is not marked by the translation.

   1 Samuel 13:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Samuel 13:20, the APB presents a list of tools to be sharpened, but its loose, whole-verse wording does not identify which English item corresponds specifically to this term.