Armed
חֲמֻשִׁיםStrong’s H2571chamush (cha-mush)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamush is the Hebrew word usually translated “arrayed for battle” and “those arrayed for battle”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- In battle array, arrayed for battle by fives, armed
How it's translated
- arrayed for battle 2
- and arrayed for battle 1
- those arrayed for battle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 1:14Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
- Joshua 4:12And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
- Judges 7:11And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲמֻשִׁים chamush · armed
in battle array, arrayed for battle by fives, armed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “armed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'ARMED, participle passive
- Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security; fortified, in a moral sense.
- In heraldry, armed is when the beaks, talons, horns, or teeth of beasts and birds of prey are of a different color from the rest of the body.
- Capped and cased as the load stone; that is set in iron.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.