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Lexicon :: Strong's G4501 - romphaia

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ῥομφαία
Transliteration
romphaia (Key)
Pronunciation
hrom-fah'-yah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of foreign origin
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:993,987

Strong’s Definitions

ῥομφαία rhomphaía, hrom-fah'-yah; probably of foreign origin; a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively):—sword.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G4501 in the following manner: sword (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G4501 in the following manner: sword (7x).

  1. a large sword

  2. properly a long Thracian javelin, also a kind of long sword wont to be worn on the right shoulder

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ῥομφαία rhomphaía, hrom-fah'-yah; probably of foreign origin; a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively):—sword.
STRONGS G4501:
ῤομφαία, ῤομφαίας, ἡ, a large sword; properly, a long Thracian javelin (cf. Rich, Dict. of Antiq. under the word Rhompaea); also a kind of long sword usually worn on the right shoulder (Hesychius ῤομφαία. Θρακιον ἀμυντηριον, μάχαιρα, ξίφος ἤ ἀκόντιον μακρόν; (Suidas 3223 c. (cf. ῥεμβω to revolve, vibrate)); cf. Plutarch, Aemil. 18); (A. V. sword): Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12, 16; Revelation 6:8; Revelation 19:15, 21; σου δέ αὐτῆς τήν ψυχήν διελεύσεται ῤομφαία, a figure for 'extreme anguish shall fill (pierce, as it were) thy soul', Luke 2:35, where cf. Kuinoel. (Josephus, Antiquities 6, 12, 4; 7, 12, 1; in Ev. Nicod. 26 the archangel Michael, keeper of Paradise, is called ἡ φλογινη ῤομφαία. Very often in the Sept. for חֶרֶב; often also in the O. T. Apocrypha.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
2:35
Revelation
1:16; 2:12; 2:16; 6:8; 19:15; 19:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4501 matches the Greek ῥομφαία (romphaia),
which occurs 199 times in 183 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 3:24–2Sa 12:10)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21 - and they said to them, “The LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the road.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 - When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:27 - But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:2 - And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 - And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:37 - Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:33 - The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his[fn] eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants[fn] of your house shall die by the sword of men.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:19 - Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:22 - So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:20 - Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine’s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:45 - Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47 - and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:51 - Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:10 - and he inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:5 - And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12 - And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:22 - “From the blood of the slain,
from the fat of the mighty,
the bow of Jonathan turned not back,
and the sword of Saul returned not empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:29 - May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

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