Spear
קַ֫יִןStrong’s H7013qayin (qa-yin)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qayin is the Hebrew word usually translated “spear his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.”
Meaning
- Spear
How it's translated
- spear his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
קַ֫יִן qayin · spear
spear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPEAR, noun
- A long pointed weapon, used in war and hunting by thrusting or throwing; a lance.
- A sharp pointed instrument with barbs; used for stabbing fish and other animals.
- A shoot, as of grass; usually spire.
All definitions and other forms of “spear”
SPEAR, verb transitive
To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
SPEAR, verb intransitive
To shoot into a long stem. [See Spire.]
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.