Lance
שִׁרְיָהStrong’s H8302siryah (sir-yah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Siryah is the Hebrew word usually translated “body armor”, “body armor of” and “javelin”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.”
Meaning
- A weaponperhaps a lance, javelin
- Body armour
How it's translated
- the body armor 3
- and body armor of 1
- body armor 1
- and body armor 1
- and the body armor 1
- and a javelin 1
- like body armor 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 17:38And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
- 1 Kings 22:34And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
- 2 Chronicles 18:33And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
- 2 Chronicles 26:14And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
- Nehemiah 4:16And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
- Job 41:26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁרְיָה siryah · lance
1) a weapon 1a) perhaps a lance, javelin
שִׁרְיוֹן shiryon · armor
body armour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LANCE, noun
l'ans. [Latin lancea; Gr.]
All definitions and other forms of “lance”
LANCE, verb transitive
- To pierce with a lance or with a sharp pointed instrument.
- To pierce or cut; to open with a lancet; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
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.