Sword
מְכֵרָהStrong’s H4380mekherah (me-khe-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mekherah is the Hebrew word usually translated “swords their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.”
Meaning
- Swords, weapons, devicesmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- swords their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
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Hebrew dictionary
מְכֵרָה mekherah · sword
1) swords, weapons, devices 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sword” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWORD, noun
- An offensive weapon worn at the side, and used by hand either for thrusting or cutting.
- Figuratively, destruction by war.“I will bring a sword upon you” Leviticus 26:25
- Vengeance or justice.
- Emblem of authority and power.
All definitions
- War; dissension.“I came not to send peace, but a sword” Matthew 10:34
- Emblem of triumph and protection.
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.