TO SWING, to wave, to brandish — the causative verb behind the noun tenufah, the wave offering, and the verb of a tool in motion. ⭐ In this book it is said of two things a man must not swing: a sickle over his neighbour’s standing grain (Deuteronomy 23:26) and iron over the altar’s stones (27:5), which rewrites Exodus 20:25’s if you have swung your tool over it, you have profaned it. Joshua 8:31 (not yet on these pages) reports the altar built over which no one had swung iron, the same verb. ⚠ The subject can be God: I am about to swing my hand against them (Zechariah 2:13, already on these pages; 2:9 in English numbering), and at Isaiah 10:15 (not yet on these pages) the saw is asked whether it magnifies itself against him who swings it — the same verse that has the axe boast against the one who hews with it. The KJV and ASV read ‘lift up’ at 27:5, the NWT 1984 ‘wield’, the NIV ‘use’; the RV 1909 and RV60 «alzarás», the TNM 1987 «blandir», which is this translation’s Spanish. → first discussed at Deut 27:5