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The Definition of the word Awl

Awl

An instrument only referred to in connection with the custom of "boring the ear of a slave (Ex. 21:6; Deut. 15:17), in token of" his volunteering perpetual service when he might be free. (Comp. Ps. 40:6; Isa. 50:5).


The Old Testament

The New Testament