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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, , 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 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 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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21 - They said to them, “May the LORD look upon you and judge you, for you have made [fn]us odious in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - He said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Every man of you put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his [fn]neighbor.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:23 - When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand, the donkey turned off from the way and went into the field; but Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back into the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 - Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - They [fn]utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - ‘Then I sent the hornet before you and it [fn]drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your bow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - Then the sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - The LORD [fn]routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - His friend replied, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - When the three [fn]companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their [fn]armies with them, about 15,000 men, all who were left of the entire [fn]army of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 [fn]swordsmen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:27 - Then they took what Micah had made and the priest who had belonged to him, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burned the city with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:2 - The [fn]chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 foot [fn]soldiers who drew the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were [fn]numbered, 26,000 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were [fn]numbered, 700 choice men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 - Then the men of Israel besides Benjamin were [fn]numbered, 400,000 men who draw the sword; all these were men of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - Benjamin went out [fn]against them from Gibeah the second day and [fn]felled to the ground again 18,000 men of the sons of Israel; all these drew the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day, all [fn]who draw the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:37 - the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush also deployed and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So all of Benjamin who fell that day were 25,000 men who draw the sword; all these were valiant warriors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent 12,000 of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:33 - ‘Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar [fn]so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die [fn]in the prime of life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:19 - Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make [fn]swords or spears.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:22 - So it came about on the day of battle that neither sword nor spear 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 14:20 - Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and came to the battle; and behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. So David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” And David took them [fn]off.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:45 - Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and 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 taunted.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47 - and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORDS and He will give you into our hands.”
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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear or a sword [fn]on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons [fn]with me, because the king’s matter was urgent.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you [fn]killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:10 - “He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - Saul then said to him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - And he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; also oxen, donkeys, and sheep he struck with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - David said to his men, “Each of you gird on his sword.” So each man girded on his sword. And David also girded on his sword, and about four hundred men went up behind David while two hundred stayed with the baggage.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me.” But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:5 - When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12 - They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:22 - “From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,
The bow of Jonathan did not turn back,
And the sword of Saul did not return empty.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword 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 [fn]fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who takes hold of a distaff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - ‘Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
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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