Bible dictionaries
Helve
What Bible dictionaries say about “Helve”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Helve - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
HELVE, n. helv. The handle of an ax or hatchet.
HELVE, v.t. helv. To furnish with a helve, as an ax.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
helv (`ets "wood," "tree"): The handle or wooden part of an ax. "The head (margin "iron") slippeth from the helve" (margin "tree," De 19:5). The marginal reading suggests that "the ax is supposed to glance off the tree it is working on."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915