Spear
רֹ֫מַחStrong’s H7420romach (ro-mach)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Romach is the Hebrew word usually translated “spear”, “spears” and “lances”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;”
Meaning
- Spear, lance
How it's translated
- and spear 3
- and spears 2
- a spear 1
- and a spear 1
- and with lances 1
- spear 1
- spears their 1
- and the spears 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Nehemiah 3
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 5:8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
- 1 Kings 18:28And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
- 1 Chronicles 12:8And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
- 1 Chronicles 12:24The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
- 2 Chronicles 11:12And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
- 2 Chronicles 14:8And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
Hebrew dictionary
רֹ֫מַח romach · spear
spear, lance
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.