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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 7 / 8 (Eze 26:6–Hos 7:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:6 - ‘Also her daughters who are [fn]on the mainland will be slain by the sword, H2719 and they will know that I am the LORD.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:8 - “He will slay your daughters [fn]on the mainland with the sword; H2719 and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - “The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his [fn]axes H2719 he will break down your towers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:11 - “With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; H2719 and your strong pillars will come down to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7 - Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you,
The most ruthless of the nations.
And they will draw their swords H2719
Against the beauty of your wisdom
And defile your splendor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - “For I will send pestilence to her
And blood to her streets,
And the wounded will [fn]fall in her midst
By the sword H2719 upon her on every side;
Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:8 - ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will bring upon you a sword H2719 and I will cut off from you man and beast.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 - “A sword H2719 will come upon Egypt,
And anguish will be in [fn]Ethiopia;
When the slain fall in Egypt,
They take away her [fn]wealth,
And her foundations are torn down.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:5 - [fn]Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all [fn]Arabia, [fn]Libya and the [fn]people of the land [fn]that is in league will fall with them by the sword.” H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:6 - ‘Thus says the LORD,
“Indeed, those who support Egypt will fall
And the pride of her power will come down;
From Migdol to Syene
They will fall within her by the sword,” H2719
Declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - “He and his people with him,
The most ruthless of the nations,
Will be brought in to destroy the land;
And they will draw their swords H2719 against Egypt
And fill the land with the slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 - “The young men of [fn]On and of Pi-beseth
Will fall by the sword, H2719
And [fn]the women will go into captivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up [fn]for healing [fn]or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:22 - “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong and the broken; and I will make the sword H2719 fall from his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24 - ‘For I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword H2719 in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25 - ‘Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I put My sword H2719 into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - “They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; H2719 and those who were its [fn]strength lived under its shade among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - “To which among the trees of Eden are you thus [fn]equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. H2719 So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - “I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword H2719 before them; and they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:11 - For thus says the Lord GOD, “The sword H2719 of the king of Babylon will come upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12 - “By the swords H2719 of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations,
And they will devastate the pride of Egypt,
And all its hordes will be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:20 - “They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. H2719 [fn]She is given over to the sword; H2719 they have drawn her and all her hordes away.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:21 - “The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’ H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - “Assyria is there and all her company; [fn]her graves are round about [fn]her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:23 - whose graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, H2719 who [fn]spread terror in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - “Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, H2719 who went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the land of the living and bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - “They have made a bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the sword H2719 (although their terror was [fn]instilled in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; [fn]they were put in the midst of the slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:26 - “Meshech, Tubal and all their hordes are there; their graves [fn]surround them. All of them were slain by the sword H2719 uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27 - “Nor do they lie beside the fallen [fn]heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords H2719 were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these [fn]heroes was once in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:28 - “But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:29 - “There also is Edom, its kings and all its [fn]princes, who [fn]for all their might are laid with those slain by the sword; H2719 they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30 - “There also are the [fn]chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword H2719 and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:31 - “These Pharaoh will see, and he will be comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, H2719 even Pharaoh and all his army,” declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:32 - “Though I instilled a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, H2719 even Pharaoh and all his hordes,” declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - “Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword H2719 upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:3 - and he sees the sword H2719 coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:4 - then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword H2719 comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - ‘But if the watchman sees the sword H2719 coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword H2719 comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away [fn]in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:26 - “You [fn]rely on your sword, H2719 you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?”’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Thus you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword, H2719 and whoever is in the [fn]open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:5 - “Because you have had everlasting enmity and have [fn]delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword H2719 at the time of their calamity, at the time of the [fn]punishment of the end,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:8 - “I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword H2719 will [fn]fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:4 - “I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them [fn]splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords; H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - “After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, H2719 whose inhabitants have been gathered from many [fn]nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but [fn]its people were brought out from the [fn]nations, and they are living securely, all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:21 - “I will call for a sword H2719 against [fn]him on all My mountains,” declares the Lord GOD. “Every man’s sword H2719 will be against his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:23 - “The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. H2719
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - [fn]Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword H2719 and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:7 - “But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and deliver them by the LORD their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, H2719 battle, horses or horsemen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:18 - “In that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
The birds of the sky
And the creeping things of the ground.
And I will [fn]abolish the bow, the sword H2719 and war from the land,
And will make them lie down in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:16 - They turn, but not [fn]upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword H2719
Because of the [fn]insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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