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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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2719 matches the Hebrew חֶרֶב (ḥereḇ),
which occurs 413 times in 372 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 8 (Job 1:15–Isa 65:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:15 - and [fn]the Sabeans fell upon them and took them. They also struck down the young men with the edge of the sword H2719, and [fn]I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While this one was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans set up three companies and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the young men with the edge of the sword H2719, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 -

“But He saves from the sword H2719 of their mouth,

And the needy from the hand of the strong.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 -

“In famine He will redeem you from death,

And in war from hands with swords H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 -

“He does not believe that he will return from darkness,

And he is destined for the sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:29 -

Then be afraid of the sword H2719 for yourselves,

For wrath brings the punishment of the sword H2719,

So that you may know there is judgment.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 -

“Though his sons are many, [fn]they are destined for the sword H2719;

And his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:22 -

“He laughs at dread and is not dismayed;

And he does not turn back from the sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:19 -

“It is the first of the ways of God;

Let its Maker bring near its sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:26 -

“The sword H2719 that reaches it cannot avail,

Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:12 -

If [fn]a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword H2719;

He has bent His bow and prepared it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:13 -

Arise, O Yahweh, confront him, bring him low;

Protect my soul from the wicked with Your sword H2719,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:20 -

Deliver my [fn]soul from the sword H2719,

My only life from the [fn]power of the dog.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:14 -

Heth

The wicked have drawn the sword H2719 and bent their bow

To cast down the afflicted and the needy,

To slay those who are upright in conduct.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:15 -

Their sword H2719 will enter their own heart,

And their bows will be broken.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:3 -

For by their own sword H2719 they did not possess the land,

And their own arm did not save them,

But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,

For You favored them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:6 -

For I will not trust in my bow,

And my sword H2719 will not save me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:3 -

Gird Your sword H2719 on Your thigh, O [fn]Mighty One,

In Your splendor and Your majesty!

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 and arrows

And their tongue a sharp sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:7 -

Behold, they pour forth speech with their mouth;

Swords H2719 are in their lips,

For, they say, “Who hears?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:10 -

[fn]They will be delivered over to the power of the sword H2719;

They will be a portion for foxes.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:3 -

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword H2719.

They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:3 -

There He broke the [fn]flaming arrows,

The shield and the sword H2719 and the battle. [fn]Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:62 -

He also gave over His people to the sword H2719,

And [fn]was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 -

[fn]His priests fell by the sword H2719,

And [fn]His widows could not weep.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:43 -

You also turn back the edge of his sword H2719

And have not made him arise in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:10 -

Who gives salvation to kings,

Who sets David His servant free from the evil sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:6 -

Let the exaltations of God be in their throats,

And a two-edged sword H2719 in their hand,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:4 -

But her end is bitter as wormwood,

Sharp as a two-edged sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:18 -

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword H2719,

But the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:18 -

Like a club and a sword H2719 and a sharp arrow

Is a man who bears [fn]false witness against his neighbor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:14 -

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords H2719

And its fangs like knives,

To devour the afflicted from the earth

And the needy from among men.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:8 -

“All of them are those who seize the sword H2719,

Learned in war;

Each man has his sword H2719 at his side,

Guarding against the [fn]dreadful things of the night.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 -

But if you refuse and rebel,

You will be eaten by the sword H2719.”

For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.

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 H2719 into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not lift up sword H2719 against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:25 -

Your men will fall by the sword H2719

And your [fn]mighty ones in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:15 -

Anyone who is found will be pierced through,

And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword H2719.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 -

“But you have been cast out of your grave

Like an abhorred branch,

[fn]Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword H2719,

Who go down to the stones of the pit

Like a trampled corpse.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:15 -

For they have fled from the swords H2719,

From the drawn sword H2719, and from the bent bow

And from the heaviness of battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 -

You who were full of noise,

You roaring city, you exultant town;

Your slain were not slain with the sword H2719,

Nor [fn]did they die in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1 -

In that day Yahweh will [fn]punish [fn]Leviathan the fleeing serpent,

With His fierce and great and [fn]mighty sword H2719,

Even [fn]Leviathan the twisted serpent;

And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 -

And the Assyrian will fall by a sword H2719 not of man,

And a sword H2719 not of man will devour him.

So he will [fn]flee from the sword H2719,

And his choice men will become forced laborers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:5 -

For My sword H2719 is satiated in heaven;

Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon Edom

And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 -

The sword H2719 of Yahweh is filled with blood;

It is [fn]sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,

With the fat of the kidneys of rams.

For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:7 - “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 BoxIsa 37:38 - Now it happened that as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons 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 BoxIsa 41:2 -

“Who has awakened one from the east

Whom He calls in righteousness to His [fn]feet?

He gives up nations before him

And [fn]has dominion over kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword H2719,

As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 -

He has set My mouth like a sharp sword H2719;

In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;

And He has also set Me as a [fn]select arrow;

He has hidden Me in His quiver.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 -

These two things have befallen you;

Who will console you?

The devastation and destruction, famine and sword H2719;

How shall I comfort you?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12 -

I will destine you for the sword H2719,

And all of you will bow down to the slaughter,

Because I called, but you did not answer;

I spoke, but you did not hear.

And you did what was evil in My eyes

And chose that in which I was not pleased.”


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