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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 71 times in 62 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Jer 2:30–Jer 44:28)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 -

“In vain I have struck your sons;

They received no discipline.

Your sword H2719 has devoured your prophets

Like a destroying lion.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:10 -

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace’; whereas a sword H2719 touches the [fn]throat.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 -

They have dealt falsely about Yahweh

And said, “[fn]Not He;

Calamity will not come on us,

And we will not see sword H2719 or famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 -

“They will devour your harvest and your food;

They will devour your sons and your daughters;

They will devour your flocks and your herds;

They will devour your vines and your fig trees;

They will demolish with the sword H2719 your fortified cities in which you trust.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:25 -

Do not go out into the field

And do not walk on the road,

For the enemy has a sword H2719;

Terror is on every side.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:16 - “I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword H2719 after them until I have consumed them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Behold, I am about to punish them! The choice men will die by the sword H2719; their sons and daughters will die by famine;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12 -

“On all the [fn]bare heights in the wilderness

Destroyers have come,

For a sword H2719 of Yahweh is devouring

From one end of the land even to the [fn]other;

There is no peace for any flesh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:12 - “When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword H2719, famine, and pestilence.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 -

But, “Ah, Lord Yahweh!” I said, “Behold, the prophets are saying to them, ‘You will not see the sword H2719 nor will you have famine, but I will give you true peace in this place.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - “Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword H2719 or famine in this land’—by that sword H2719 and famine those prophets shall [fn]meet their end!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:16 - “The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword H2719; and there will be no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour out their own evil on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:18 -

‘If I go out to the field,

Behold, those [fn]slain with the sword H2719!

Or if I enter the city,

Behold, diseases of famine!

For both prophet and priest

Have gone around as merchants in the land that they do not know.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:2 - “And it will be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘Thus says Yahweh:

“Those destined for death, to death;

And those destined for the sword H2719, to the sword H2719;

And those destined for famine, to famine;

And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 -

“I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares Yahweh: “the sword H2719 to kill, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and bring to ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 -

“She who bore seven sons languishes;

[fn]Her breathing is labored.

Her sun has set while it was yet day;

She has been shamed and humiliated.

So I will give over their survivors to the sword H2719

Before their enemies,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases; they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword H2719 and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 -

Therefore, give their children over to famine

And deliver them up to the [fn]power of the sword H2719;

And let their wives become childless and widowed.

Let their men also be [fn]smitten to death,

Their young men struck down by the sword H2719 in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “I will empty out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem to the point of destruction in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword H2719 before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:4 - “For thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword H2719 of their enemies. So I will give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away into exile to Babylon and will strike them down with the sword H2719.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “Then afterwards,” declares Yahweh, “I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who remain in this city from the pestilence, the sword H2719, and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword H2719. He will not show pity on them nor spare nor have compassion.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - “He who inhabits this city will die by the sword H2719 and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - ‘I will send the sword H2719, the famine, and the pestilence upon them until they come to an end from being upon the land which I gave to them and their fathers.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:16 - “They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword H2719 that I will send among them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 -

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more because of the sword H2719 which I will send among you.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - “For behold, I am beginning to bring evil against this city which is called by My name. But shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for I am calling for a sword H2719 against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares Yahweh of hosts.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 -

‘A rumbling has come to the end of the earth

Because Yahweh has a contention against the nations.

He is entering into judgment with all flesh;

As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword H2719,’ declares Yahweh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - And they brought Uriah out from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with a sword H2719 and cast his dead body into the [fn]burial place of the [fn]common people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 -

“And it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword H2719, with famine, and with pestilence,” declares Yahweh, “until I have brought [fn]it to an end by his hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - “Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword H2719, famine, and pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken to that nation which will not serve the king of Babylon?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:17 - thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword H2719, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - ‘I will pursue them with the sword H2719, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will give them over to be a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an object of horror and of hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have banished them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“The people who survived the sword H2719

Found grace in the wilderness

Israel, when it went to find its relief.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - ‘Behold, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, because of the sword H2719, the famine, and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has happened; and behold, You see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 -

“So now, therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you are saying, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword H2719, by famine, and by pestilence.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4 - “For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword H2719,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:4 - “Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says Yahweh concerning you, ‘You will not die by the sword H2719.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 -

“Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [fn]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a [fn]release to you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to the sword H2719, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘He who stays in this city will die by the sword H2719 and by the famine and by the pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as spoil and stay alive.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:18 - “For I will certainly provide you escape, and you will not fall by the sword H2719; but you will have your own life as spoil because you have trusted in Me,” declares Yahweh.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:2 - Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him arose and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword H2719 and put to death the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:16 - then the sword H2719, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will [fn]follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - “So all the men who set their face to go to Egypt to sojourn there will die by the sword H2719, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and they will have no survivors or any who escaped from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - So now, you should clearly know that you will die by the sword H2719, by famine, and by pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:11 - “He will also come and strike the land of Egypt; those who are meant for death will be given over to death, and those for captivity to captivity, and those for the sword H2719 to the sword H2719.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their face on entering the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they will all [fn]meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword H2719 and [fn]meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword H2719 and famine; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - ‘And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword H2719, with famine, and with pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - “But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have [fn]met our end by the sword H2719 and by famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - ‘Behold, I am watching over them for [fn]evil and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will [fn]meet their end by the sword H2719 and by famine until they [fn]are completely consumed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:28 - ‘Those who escape the sword H2719 will return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah [fn]few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to sojourn there will know whose word will be established, Mine or theirs.

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