File
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) An orderly succession; a line; a row
(2): ( n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; - in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
(3): ( v. t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
(4): ( v. t.) To make foul; to defile.
(5): ( v. t.) To smooth or polish as with a file.
(6): ( v. t.) To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
(7): ( n.) A shrewd or artful person.
(8): ( n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
(9): ( n.) A roll or list.
(10): ( n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
(11): ( n.) Course of thought; thread of narration.
(12): ( n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
(13): ( n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
(14): ( v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
(15): ( v. t.) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
(16): ( v. i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; - generally with off.
King James Dictionary [2]
FILE, n. L. filum. The primary sense is probably to draw out or extend, or to twist.
1. A thread, string of line particularly, a line or wire on which papers are strung in due order for preservation, and for conveniently finding them when wanted. Documents are kept on file. 2. The whole number of papers strung on a line or wire as a file of writs. A file is a record of court. 3. A bundle of papers tied together, with the title of each indorsed the mode of arranging and keeping papers being changed, without a change of names. 4. A roll, list or catalogue. 5. A row of soldiers ranged one behind another, from front to rear the number of men constituting the depth of the battalion or squadron.
FILE,
1. To string to fasten, as papers, on a line or wire for preservation. Declarations and affidavits must be filed. An original writ may be filed after judgment. 2. To arrange or insert in a bundle, as papers, indorsing the title on each paper. This is now the more common mode of filing papers in public and private offices. 3. To present or exhibit officially, or for trial as, to file a bill in chancery.
FILE, To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another.
FILE, n.
An instrument used in smoothing and polishing metals, formed of iron or steel, and cut in little furrows.
FILE,
1. To rub and smooth with a file to polish. 2. To cut as with a file to wear off or away by friction as, to file off a tooth. 3. from defile. To foul or defile. Not used.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
FILE . Only 1 Samuel 13:21 , but the passage is very corrupt; see the larger commentaries.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
is the incorrect rendering in the Eng. Bible of the expression פְּצַירָה פַּרם (Pelsirah'Pim found only in 1 Samuel 13:21), which literally signifies a Notching Of The Mouth or Edge of tools, i.e. bluntness or dulness of the agricultural instruments, in consequence of the want of smiths to sharpen them by welding out the point.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
fı̄l : Found only in 1 Samuel 13:21 , but the text here is obscure. The Hebrew ( pecı̄rāh phı̄m ) signifies "bluntness of edge," and is so rendered in the Revised Version, margin. See Tools .
