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Lexicon :: Strong's H2595 - ḥănîṯ

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חֲנִית
Transliteration
ḥănîṯ
Pronunciation
khan-eeth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: TWOT- 690b

Strong’s Definitions

חֲנִית chănîyth, khan-eeth'; from H2583; a lance (for thrusting, like pitching a tent):—javelin, spear.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's H2595 in the following manner: spear (41x), javelin (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's H2595 in the following manner: spear (41x), javelin (6x).
  1. spear

    1. spear

      1. shaft of a spear

      2. spear-head

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֲנִית chănîyth, khan-eeth'; from H2583; a lance (for thrusting, like pitching a tent):—javelin, spear.
STRONGS H2595: Abbreviations
חֲנִית noun feminine spear (as flexible? see Thes); — absolute חֲנִית 2 Samuel 13:19 + 26 times; construct id. 1 Samuel 26:16 (so 1 Samuel 26:22 Qr, where Kt has article); suffix חֲנִיתָ֑ךָ Habakkuk 3:11; חֲנִיתוֺ 1 Samuel 17:7 (twice in verse) + 11 times + 2 Samuel 23:8, see below; plural חֲנִיתִים 2 Chronicles 23:9; חֲנִיתוֺתֵיהֶם Isaiah 2:4חֲנִיתֹתֵיהֶם Micah 4:3; —
1. spear, as hurled 1 Samuel 18:10, 11; 1 Samuel 19:9, 10 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 20:33; held by king 1 Samuel 22:6; sign of king's presence 1 Samuel 26:7, 8, 11, 12, 16, 22 (see RSK 171); also 2 Samuel 1:6; 2 Samuel 2:23; 2 Samuel 21:19; 2 Samuel 23:18, 21 (3 times in verse); 1 Chronicles 11:112 Samuel 23:8, where read הוּא עוֺרֵר אֶתחֲֿנִיתוֺ (for הוּא עֲדִינוֺ הָעֶצְנִו֯) according to Ew Th Ke Klo Dr (not We), 1 Chronicles 11:20, 23 (3 times in verse); plural 2 Chronicles 23:9; often || חֶרֶב 1 Samuel 13:19, 22; 1 Samuel 17:45, 47; 1 Samuel 21:9; Isaiah 2:4Micah 4:3; Nahum 3:3; || שְׁלָטִים 2 Kings 11:10; || צִנָּה 1 Chronicles 12:35 (Baer); מַסָּע Job 41:18; סְגֹד Psalm 35:3; || קֶשֶׁת Psalm 46:10.
2. a. shaft of spear is עֵץ ח׳ 2 Samuel 23:7; 1 Chronicles 20:5 + 1 Samuel 17:7 Qr (doubtless right; Kt חץ).
b. spear-head לַהֶבֶת ח׳ 1 Samuel 17:7, compare לַהַב ח׳ Job 39:23; בְּרַק ח׳ Nahum 3:3; Habakkuk 3:11.
c. butt of spear אַחֲרֵי ח׳ 2 Samuel 2:23.
3. metaphor of teeth of lions Psalm 57:5 [Psalm 57:4] (|| חצים; figurative of Psalmist's enemies).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

13:19; 13:22; 17:7; 17:7; 17:7; 17:45; 17:47; 18:10; 18:11; 19:9; 19:10; 20:33; 21:9; 22:6; 26:7; 26:8; 26:11; 26:12; 26:16; 26:16; 26:22; 26:22

2 Samuel

1:6; 2:23; 2:23; 13:19; 21:19; 23:7; 23:8; 23:8; 23:18; 23:21

2 Kings

11:10

1 Chronicles

11:11; 11:20; 11:23; 12:35; 20:5

2 Chronicles

23:9; 23:9

Job

39:23; 41:18

Psalms

35:3; 46:10; 57:4

Isaiah

2:4; 2:4

Micah

4:3; 4:3

Nahum

3:3; 3:3

Habakkuk

3:11; 3:11

H2595

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2595 matches the Hebrew חֲנִית (ḥănîṯ),
which occurs 48 times in 40 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:19 -

Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make [fn]swords or spears H2595.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:22 - So it happened on the day of battle that neither sword nor spear H2595 was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, but they were found with Saul and his son Jonathan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:7 - And the shaft of his spear H2595 was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear H2595 weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:45 - Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear H2595, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have [fn]reproached.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47 - and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh does not save by sword or by spear H2595; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:10 -

Now it happened on the next day that an evil spirit from God [fn]came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house. Now David was playing the harp with his hand, [fn]as usual; and [fn]a spear H2595 was in Saul’s hand.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:11 - Then Saul hurled the spear H2595 for he thought, “I will [fn]pin David to the wall.” But David [fn]escaped from his presence twice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:9 - Now there was an evil spirit from Yahweh on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear H2595 in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - And Saul tried to [fn]pin David to the wall with the spear H2595, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he [fn]stuck the spear H2595 into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:33 - Then Saul hurled his spear H2595 at him to strike him down; so Jonathan knew that his father had decided to put David to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 -

And David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear H2595 or a sword [fn]on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons in my hand because the king’s matter was urgent.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:6 -

Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear H2595 in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:7 - So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear H2595 stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8 - Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has surrendered your enemy into your hand; so now, please let me strike him with the spear H2595 [fn]to the ground with one stroke, and I will not [fn]strike him the second time.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:11 - “Yahweh forbid that I should send forth my hand against the anointed of Yahweh; but now please take the spear H2595 that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:12 - So David took the spear H2595 and the jug of water from beside Saul’s head, and they went away, but no one saw or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a [fn]sound sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:16 - “This thing that you have done is not good. As Yahweh lives, all of you [fn]must surely die because you did not keep watch over your lord, the anointed of Yahweh. So now, see where the king’s spear H2595 is and the jug of water that was at his head.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:22 - And David replied, “Behold the spear H2595 of the king! Now let one of the young men come over and take it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and behold, Saul was leaning on his spear H2595. And behold, the chariots and the horsemen pursued him closely.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:23 - However, he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner struck him in the belly with the butt end of the spear H2595, so that the spear H2595 came out at his back. And he fell there and died on the spot. And it happened that all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite struck down [fn]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear H2595 was like a weaver’s beam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:7 -

But the man who touches them

Must be [fn]armed with iron and the shaft of a spear H2595,

And they will be completely burned with fire where they sit.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:18 -

Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the [fn]thirty. And he swung his spear H2595 against three hundred [fn]who were slain by him; and he had a name as well as the three.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - He had also struck down an Egyptian, [fn]an impressive man. Now in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear H2595, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear H2595 from the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear H2595.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:10 - Then the priest gave to the commanders of hundreds the spears H2595 and small shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:11 - These constitute the list of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear H2595 against three hundred [fn]slain by him at one time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:20 -

Now [fn]Abshai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the [fn]thirty. And he swung his spear H2595 against three hundred [fn]who were slain by him; and he had a name as well as the [fn]thirty.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - He had also struck down an Egyptian, [fn]an impressive man, [fn]five cubits tall. Now in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear H2595 like a weaver’s beam, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear H2595 from the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear H2595.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:34 -

Of Naphtali there were 1,000 commanders, and with them 37,000 with large shield and spear H2595.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:5 - And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear H2595 was like a weaver’s beam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:9 - Then Jehoiada the priest gave to the commanders of hundreds the spears H2595 and the shields and small shields which had been King David’s, which were in the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:23 -

“The quiver rattles against him,

The flashing spear H2595 and javelin.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:26 -

“The sword that reaches it cannot avail,

Nor the spear H2595, the dart, or the javelin.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:3 -

Draw also the spear H2595 and [fn]the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me;

Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:9 -

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;

He breaks the bow and cuts up the spear H2595;

He burns the chariots with fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:4 -

My soul is among lions;

I am lying down among those who breathe forth fire,

Sons of men whose teeth are spears H2595 and arrows

And their tongue a sharp sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:4 -

And He will judge between the nations,

And will [fn]render decisions for many peoples;

And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears H2595 into pruning hooks.

Nation will not lift up sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 -

And He will judge between many peoples

And will render decisions for mighty, [fn]distant nations.

And they will hammer their swords into plowshares

And their spears H2595 into pruning hooks;

Nation will not lift up sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:3 -

Horsemen charging,

And swords flaming, and spears H2595 flashing,

Many slain, a mass of corpses,

And there is no end to dead bodies

They stumble over [fn]the dead bodies!

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:11 -

Sun and moon stood in their lofty places;

They went away at the light of Your arrows,

At the brightness of Your flashing spear H2595.

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