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  • noun Plural form of pruninghook.

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Examples

  • "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks," says the Bible, and by shipping nuclear warheads to the Russian Federation and receiving reactor fuel back in exchange, Ukraine has shown us all how.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

  • "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks," says the Bible, and by shipping nuclear warheads to the Russian Federation and receiving reactor fuel back in exchange, Ukraine has shown us all how.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

  • "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks," says the Bible, and by shipping nuclear warheads to the Russian Federation and receiving reactor fuel back in exchange, Ukraine has shown us all how.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

  • "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks," says the Bible, and by shipping nuclear warheads to the Russian Federation and receiving reactor fuel back in exchange, Ukraine has shown us all how.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

  • The vision for cultivating peace was perfectly expressed by Isaiah: "... and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

    Liz Neumark: Farmers for Peace 2010

  • The vision for cultivating peace was perfectly expressed by Isaiah: "... and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

    Liz Neumark: Farmers for Peace 2010

  • Please God may the Prophet's Isaiah 2:2-4 words come to pass very soon: "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more".

    Patriarch Twal visiting London 2009

  • And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

    Foodie Psalms For The Inauguration, Part IV Eddie Gehman Kohan 2009

  • I find it interesting that when Isaiah prophesied chapter 2 of the glorious kingdom he described it in terms of a repentance in technology: swords are made into plowshares, and spears are converted into pruninghooks.

    Christian Agrarianism Gets Noticed at Chalcedon Herrick Kimball 2006

  • Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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