Hebrew word · H7420
רֹ֫מַח
romach
spear
Appears 15 times in 15 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
spear, lance
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Numbers · 1
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Numbers 25:7 רֹ֖מַח a spear
On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
Judges · 1
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Judges 5:8 וָרֹ֔מַח and a spear
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
Here: A thrusting spear or lance, the basic weapon of the foot soldier. Shield and spear together make the pair of a soldier's standard kit, i.e. 'no arms at all'.
1 Kings · 1
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1 Kings 18:28 וּבָֽרְמָחִ֑ים and with <the> lances
So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
1 Chronicles · 2
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1 Chronicles 12:8 וָרֹ֑מַח and spear
Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
Here: A spear or lance for thrusting. Large shield plus spear is the kit of front-line infantry.
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1 Chronicles 12:24 וָרֹ֑מַח and spear
From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
2 Chronicles · 4
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2 Chronicles 11:12 וּרְמָחִ֔ים and spears
He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
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2 Chronicles 14:8 וָרֹמַח֒ and spear[s]
Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.
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2 Chronicles 25:5 רֹ֥מַח spear
Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
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2 Chronicles 26:14 וּרְמָחִים֙ and spears
Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
Nehemiah · 3
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Nehemiah 4:13 רָמְחֵיהֶ֖ם spears their
So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
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Nehemiah 4:16 וְהָרְמָחִ֣ים and the spears
And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah
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Nehemiah 4:21 בָּֽרְמָחִ֔ים on <the> spears
So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.
Jeremiah · 1
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Jeremiah 46:4 הָֽרְמָחִ֔ים the spears
Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
Here: The heavy thrusting spear of the infantry line, the weapon Phinehas drove through the offenders in Numbers 25:7. It was not a light throwing javelin.
Ezekiel · 1
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Ezekiel 39:9 וּבְרֹ֑מַח and with spear
Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
Joel · 1
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Joel 3:10 לִרְמָחִ֑ים into spears
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
Here: "Into spears." A rōmaḥ was a thrusting spear or lance. Isaiah and Micah used a different spear word (ḥănît), so Joel echoes their image without copying it word for word.
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