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# רֹמַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7420

**spear** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7420/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֹ֫מַח: spear, lance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7420/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spear, lance (etym. unknown; Aramaic רוּמְחָא, ܪܽܘܡܚܳܐ; Arabic رُمْحٌ; Ethiopic ረምሕ: );—often + חֶרֶב, צִנָּה, מָגֵן, קֶשֶׁת, etc.;—abs. ר׳ Ju 5:8; Nu 25:7 (P), Ez 39:9; 1 Ch 12:9, 25 (van d. H. v 8, 24), 2 Ch 14:7; 25:5; pl. רְמָחִים 1 K 18:28; Je 46:4; Jo 4:10; Ne 4:10, 15; 2 Ch 11:12; 26:14; sf. רָמְחֵיהֶם Ne 4:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: spears (8); spear (4); a spear (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 12:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.25/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה נֹשְׂאֵ֥י צִנָּ֖ה וָרֹ֑מַח שֵׁ֧שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֛ים וּשְׁמוֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת חֲלוּצֵ֥י צָבָֽא׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Judah \[who\].bore (of).shield and spear \[were\].six thousand(s) and eight hundred(s) \[men\].equipped of.war

*JPS 1917:* The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.

[Joel 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.10/#tree)

כֹּ֤תּוּ אִתֵּיכֶם֙ לַֽחֲרָב֔וֹת וּמַזְמְרֹֽתֵיכֶ֖ם לִרְמָחִ֑ים הַֽחַלָּ֔שׁ יֹאמַ֖ר גִּבּ֥וֹר אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* beat plowshares your into swords and your.pruning knives into spears the.weak \[man\] let.him.say \[am\].a.warrior I

*JPS 1917:* Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7420.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7420/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).