Haft

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; - said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt.

(2): ( n.) A dwelling.

(3): ( v. t.) To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.

King James Dictionary [2]

H`AFT, n. L. capio. A handle that part of an instrument or vessel which is taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used. It is used chiefly for the part of a sword or dagger by which it is held the hilt.

H`AFT, To set in a haft to furnish with a handle.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]

HAFT . ‘Haft,’ still used locally for ‘handle,’ occurs in   Judges 3:22 ‘the haft also went in after the blade.’

Morrish Bible Dictionary [4]

The 'handle,' as of a dagger.  Judges 3:22 .

Holman Bible Dictionary [5]

 Judges 3:22

Easton's Bible Dictionary [6]

 Judges 3:22

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [7]

( נַצָּב , Nitstsab',Firm), the Handle of a weapon, e.g. of a dagger ( Judges 3:22). (See Knife).

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