Dict: easton - Hammer

easton:

Hammer @

(1.) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters kjv@Isaiah:41:7) and by quarry-men kjv@Jeremiah:23:29). Metaphorically of Babylon kjv@Jeremiah:50:23) or Nebuchadnezzar.

(2.) Heb. makabah, a stone-cutter's mallet (kjvKings:6:7), or of any workman kjv@Judges:4:21; kjv@Isaiah:44:12).

(3.) Heb. halmuth, a poetical word for a workman's hammer, found only in kjv@Judges:5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which the pins of the tent of the nomad are driven into the ground.

(4.) Heb. mappets, rendered "battle-axe" in kjv@Jeremiah:51:20. This was properly a "mace," which is thus described by Rawlinson: "The Assyrian mace was a short, thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood or (and this is more probable) of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end by which it could be grasped with greater firmness."