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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 3 / 8 (2Sa 2:16–Est 9:5)

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:16 - And each one of them seized his [fn]opponent by the head and thrust his sword H2719 in his [fn]opponent’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called [fn]Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword H2719 devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long will you [fn]refrain from telling the people to turn back from following their brothers?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - “May it whirl on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who takes hold of a spindle, or who falls by the sword H2719, or who lacks bread not be cut off from the house of Joab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing be evil in your sight, for the sword H2719 devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and [fn]tear it down’; and so strengthen him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - ‘Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword H2719, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword H2719 of the sons of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - ‘So now, the sword H2719 shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:14 - So David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, for otherwise there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go in haste, lest he overtake us hastily and drive calamity on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword H2719.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - And the battle there was scattered over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword H2719 devoured.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:8 - They were at the large stone which is in Gibeon, and Amasa came [fn]to meet them. Now Joab was [fn]dressed in his military attire, and over it was a belt with a sword H2719 in its sheath fastened at his [fn]waist; and as he came out, it fell out.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:10 - But Amasa was not on guard against the sword H2719 which was in Joab’s hand so he struck him in the belly with it and poured out his inward parts on the ground, and did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:10 - He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary and [fn]clung to the sword H2719, and Yahweh brought about a great salvation that day; and the people returned after him only to strip the slain.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab gave the total count of the [fn]census of the people to the king; and there were in Israel 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword H2719, and the men of Judah were 500,000 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:51 - Then it was told to Solomon, saying, “Behold, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, and behold, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword H2719.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a [fn]violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword H2719.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - “And Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword H2719, but my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:24 - And the king said, “Get me a sword H2719.” So they brought a sword H2719 before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:28 - So they cried with a loud voice and gashed themselves according to their custom with swords H2719 and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 -

Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and [fn]how he had killed all the prophets with the sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:10 - And he said, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, pulled down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword H2719. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:14 - Then he said, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, pulled down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword H2719. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:17 - “And it will be that the one who escapes from the sword H2719 of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword H2719 of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:26 - Then the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, so he took with him 700 men who drew swords H2719, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:22 - And he said, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those you have taken captive with your sword H2719 and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and walk back to their master.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword H2719, and their infants you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 -

Now it happened that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the [fn]guard and to the royal officers, “Come in, strike them down; let none come out.” And they struck them down with the edge of the sword H2719; and the [fn]guard and the royal officers threw them out and went to the [fn]inner room of the house of Baal.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:15 - And Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of hundreds who were appointed over the military force and said to them, “Bring her out [fn]between the ranks, and whoever follows her put to death with the sword H2719.” For the priest said, “Let her not be put to death in the house of Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20 - So all the people of the land were glad, and the city was quiet. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword H2719 at the king’s house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7 - “Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a report and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword H2719 in his own land.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:37 - Now it happened that as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, [fn]Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword H2719; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18 -

The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of men of valor, men who bore shield and sword H2719 and shot with bow and were learned in the ways of battle, were 44,760, who went out for military duty.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:4 - Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword H2719 and pierce me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer was not willing, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took his sword H2719 and fell on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:5 - Then his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, so he also fell on his sword H2719 and died.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:5 - And Joab gave the total count of the [fn]census of the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword H2719; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword H2719.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:12 - either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your adversaries, while the sword H2719 of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword H2719 of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ So now, see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - Then David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword H2719 in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:27 - Then Yahweh spoke to the angel, and he returned his sword H2719 to its sheath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:30 - But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was terrified by the sword H2719 of the angel of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:9 - ‘Should evil come upon us, the sword H2719, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before You (for Your name is in this house) and cry to You in our distress, and You will hear and save us.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:4 -

So Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself, and he killed all his brothers with the sword H2719, and some of the commanders of Israel also.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:14 - Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of hundreds who were appointed over the military force and said to them, “Bring her out [fn]between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be put to death with the sword H2719.” For the priest said, “You shall not put her to death in the house of Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:21 - So all of the people of the land were glad, and the city was quiet. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword H2719.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:9 - “And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword H2719, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And Yahweh sent an angel who wiped out every mighty man of valor, ruler, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned [fn]in shame to his own land. And he entered the house of his god, and some of [fn]his own children caused him to fall there by the sword H2719.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:6 - And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding [fn]ruins,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who killed their choice men with the sword H2719 in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on choice man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And those who had escaped from the sword H2719 he took away into exile to Babylon; and they were slaves to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:7 - “Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword H2719, to captivity, and to plunder and to [fn]open shame, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:13 - that I had men stand in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the [fn]exposed places, and I had the people stand by families with their swords H2719, spears, and bows.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:18 - As for the builders, each wore his sword H2719 girded at his side as he built, while [fn]the trumpeter stood near me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:5 - Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with [fn]the sword H2719, killing and causing them to perish; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

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