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Lexicon :: Strong's H2719 - ḥereḇ

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חֶרֶב
Transliteration
ḥereḇ
Pronunciation
kheh'-reb
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 732a

Strong’s Definitions

חֶרֶב chereb, kheh'-reb; from H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement:—axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 413x

The KJV translates Strong's H2719 in the following manner: sword (401x), knife (5x), dagger (3x), axes (1x), mattocks (1x), TOOL (1x), sword (with H3027) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 413x
The KJV translates Strong's H2719 in the following manner: sword (401x), knife (5x), dagger (3x), axes (1x), mattocks (1x), TOOL (1x), sword (with H3027) (1x).
  1. sword, knife

    1. sword

    2. knife

    3. tools for cutting stone

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֶרֶב chereb, kheh'-reb; from H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement:—axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
STRONGS H2719: Abbreviations
חֶ֫רֶב 411 noun feminineIsaiah 21:15 sword (as weapon; Aramaic חַרְבָּא, axBrfo, Zinjirli חרב; Arabic حَرْبَةً dart, javelin) — absolute חֶ֫רֶב Genesis 3:24 +; חָ֑רֶב Exodus 17:13 +; construct חֶ֫רֶב Deuteronomy 33:29 +; suffix חַרְבִּי Exodus 15:9 + 13 times; חַרְבְּךָ Genesis 27:40 + 7 times; חֵרְבֶּ֑ךָ 1 Samuel 17:33; Psalm 17:13; חַרְבּוֺ Numbers 22:23 + 24 times; חַרְבְּכֶם Jeremiah 2:30; Ezekiel 33:26; חַרְבָּם Psalm 37:15; Psalm 44:4; plural חֲרָבוֺת Isaiah 21:15 + 5 times; construct חַרְבוֺת Joshua 5:2 + 2 times; suffix חַרְבוֺתָיו Ezekiel 26:9; חַרְבוֺתָם Isaiah 2:4 + 5 times; חַרְבֹתֵיהֶם Micah 4:3 + 2 times; —
1. a. sword, as weapon of war Genesis 48:22 (E), Judges 7:14, 20; 1 Samuel 21:9, and so in all periods; two-edged (short) sword וְלָהּ שְׁנֵי פֵיוֺ֖ת גֹּמֶד אָרְכָּהּ ח׳ Judges 3:16, compare פִּיּוֹת ח׳ Proverbs 5:4 (in simile), פִּיפִיּוֹת ח׳ Psalm 149:6; see also צוּר ח׳ edge of sword Psalm 89:44.
b. gird on swordחָגַר הח׳ 1 Samuel 17:39; 1 Samuel 25:13 (3 times in verse); Psalm 45:4 (הח׳ ח׳ עַל יָרֵך), שִׂים על ירך Exodus 32:27, compare especially 2 Samuel 20:8.
c. draw the sword הֵרִיק הח׳ Exodus 15:9; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 5:2, 12; Ezekiel 12:14; Ezekiel 28:7, הוציא הח׳ Ezekiel 21:8; Ezekiel 21:10, פתח הח׳ Psalm 37:14; Ezekiel 21:33, נטשׁ Isaiah 21:15 (Gr Che לטשׁ see below); usually שׁלף הח׳ Numbers 22:23, 31; Joshua 5:13; Judges 3:22; Judges 8:10, 20; Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 17:51; 1 Samuel 31:41 Chronicles 10:4; 1 Chronicles 21:16, and as characteristic of warriors שֹׁלֵף ח׳ Judges 20:2, 15, 17, 25, 35, 46; 2 Samuel 24:9; 2 Kings 3:26; 1 Chronicles 21:5 (twice in verse); וַתִּדְבַּק יָדוֺ אֶלהַֿח׳ 2 Samuel 23:10, insert also in || 1 Chronicles 11:13 (Dr).
d. whet, sharpen the sword לטשׁ הח׳ Psalm 7:13 (compare Isaiah 21:15 above), but also שׁנן Deuteronomy 32:41 compare Psalm 64:4, הוּחַדָּה Ezekiel 21:14; Ezekiel 21:16.
e. put up the sword into the sheath אֶלנְֿדָנָהּ הֵשִׁיב הח׳ 1 Chronicles 21:27 (sheath of sword is elsewhere תַּעַר 1 Samuel 7:51; 2 Samuel 20:8; Jeremiah 47:6; Ezekiel 21:8).
f. slay with sword הרג בח׳ Joshua 10:11; Joshua 13:22 +; in ימותו אנשׁים 1 Samuel 2:33, insert בְּחֶרֶב before אנשׁים Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; rarely הכה בח׳ Joshua 11:10; 2 Kings 19:37Isaiah 37:38; very often הִכָּה לְפִיחֿ׳ smite according to the mouth of the sword i.e. as the sword can devour (2 Samuel 2:26; 11:25) =without quarter Numbers 21:24 (E) Deuteronomy 13:16; a Deuteronomy 20:13; Joshua 11:11, 12, 14 (all D) Judges 18:27; Judges 21:10; 1 Kings 10:25; Job 1:15, 17; also with העיר as sole object Joshua 8:24; Joshua 10:28, 30, 32, 35, 37, compare Joshua 10:39; Joshua 19:47; Judges 1:8, 25; Judges 20:37; 1 Samuel 22:19 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 15:14; הרג לפיחֿ׳ Genesis 34:26 (J); החרים לפיחֿ׳ Deuteronomy 13:16b (including הָעִיר in object), Joshua 6:21; 1 Samuel 15:8, חלשׁ לפיחֿ׳ Exodus 17:13 (E); נפל לפיחֿ׳ Joshua 8:24; Judges 4:16; לפי־ח׳֗֗֗ י׳וַיָּהָם Judges 4:15; — (לפיחֿ׳ is chiefly in Joshua and Judges (21 times), in Hexateuch only J E D; but Job post-exilic).
g. אכלה הח׳ etc., of the sword as devouring:תּאֹכֵל חַרְבִּי בָשָׂר Deuteronomy 32:42 (poetry), 2 Samuel 2:26; 2 Samuel 11:25; 2 Samuel 18:8; Isaiah 1:10; Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 46:10, 14; Nahum 2:14.
h. slain by sword is חֲלַלחִֿ׳ Numbers 19:16 (P) and frequently Ezekiel, חַלְלֵיחֿ׳ Ezekiel 31:17, 18; Ezekiel 32:21, 25, 28, 29, 30, 32; Ezekiel 35:8 מְחֻלְלֵי ח׳ Ezekiel 35:26 < Co חלליחֿ׳ (on text of Ezekiel 32:20, 22, 31 see Co).
i. שְׁבֻיוֺת ח׳ Genesis 31:26 are captives of (taken by) sword.
j. sword frequently agent of י׳ Judges 7:20; Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 47:6 etc., — so Deuteronomy 28:22, but read חֹרֶב see below I. חרב (compare on other hand 1 Samuel 17:47); note especially Genesis 3:24 הח׳לַהַט הַמִּתְהַפֶּכֶת; in poetry לַהַכ ח׳ Nahum 3:3, בְּרַק ח׳ Deuteronomy 32:41.
k. ח׳ figurative of tongue Psalm 57:5; compare Psalm 59:8; figurative of violence war, etc., Genesis 27:40; in simile Proverbs 5:4 (of grievous end of dealings with strange women).
2. knife צֻרִים ח׳ flint knives for use in circumcision Joshua 5:2, 3(see WeSkizzen iii, 166); Ezekiel 5:1, 2חַדָּה תַּעַר ח׳ הַגַּלָּבִים (according to Co use of sword as razor is significant).
3. of tools used in hewing stone חַרְבְּךָ הֵנַפְתָּ עליה Exodus 20:25; יִתֹּץ בח׳ Ezekiel 26:9, according to most =tools, axes, 'steel' (Co ' Eisen '), but possibly swords as implement ready to hand; 2 Chronicles 34:6 Qr בְּחַרְבֹתֵיהֶם with their tools; read perhaps בְּחָרְבֹתֵיהֶם in their ruins, Be, who compare Psalm 109:10; see חָרְבָּה below II. חרב (Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate omit חרב).
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Strong's Number H2719 matches the Hebrew חֶרֶב (ḥereḇ),
which occurs 413 times in 372 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 8 (Eze 26:6–Hos 7:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:6 - And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; H2719 and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:8 - He shall slay with the sword H2719 thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes H2719 he shall break down thy towers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:11 - With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, H2719 and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7 - Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords H2719 against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword H2719 upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:8 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword H2719 upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 - And the sword H2719 shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:5 - Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:6 - Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, H2719 saith the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords H2719 against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 - The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: H2719 and these cities shall go into captivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:22 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword H2719 to fall out of his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24 - And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword H2719 in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25 - But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword H2719 into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; H2719 and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. H2719 This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword H2719 before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:11 - For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword H2719 of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12 - By the swords H2719 of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:20 - They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: H2719 she is delivered to the sword: H2719 draw her and all her multitudes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:21 - The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:23 - Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, H2719 which caused terror in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, H2719 which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: H2719 though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:26 - There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, H2719 though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27 - And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords H2719 under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:28 - Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:29 - There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: H2719 they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30 - There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, H2719 and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:31 - Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, H2719 saith the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:32 - For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, H2719 even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword H2719 upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:3 - If when he seeth the sword H2719 come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:4 - Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword H2719 come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman see the sword H2719 come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword H2719 come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:26 - Ye stand upon your sword, H2719 ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, H2719 and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:5 - Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword H2719 in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:8 - And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:4 - And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, H2719 and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:21 - And I will call for a sword H2719 against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword H2719 shall be against his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:23 - And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, H2719 and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:7 - But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, H2719 nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:18 - And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword H2719 and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:16 - They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword H2719 for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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