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Lexicon :: Strong's H7420 - rōmaḥ

Aa
רֹמַח
Transliteration
rōmaḥ
Pronunciation
ro'-makh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to hurl
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2172

Strong’s Definitions

רֹמַח rômach, ro'-makh; from an unused root meaning to hurl; a lance (as thrown); especially the iron point:—buckler, javelin, lancet, spear.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H7420 in the following manner: spear (12x), javelin (1x), lancet (1x), buckler (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H7420 in the following manner: spear (12x), javelin (1x), lancet (1x), buckler (1x).

  1. spear, lance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רֹמַח rômach, ro'-makh; from an unused root meaning to hurl; a lance (as thrown); especially the iron point:—buckler, javelin, lancet, spear.
STRONGS H7420: Abbreviations
† רֹ֫מַח noun [masculine] spear, lance (etymology unknown; Aramaic רוּמְחָא, bdb094201; Arabic bdb094202; Ethiopic bdb094203); — often +חֶרֶב, צִנָּה, מָגֵן, קֶשֶׁת, etc.; — absolute ר׳ Judges 5:8; Numbers 25:7 (P), Ezekiel 39:9; 1 Chronicles 12:9; 1 Chronicles 12:25 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:8; 1 Chronicles 12:24), 2 Chron 14:7; 2 Chronicles 25:5; plural רְמָחִים 1 Kings 18:28; Jeremiah 46:4; Joel 4:10; Nehemiah 4:10; Nehemiah 4:15; 2 Chronicles 11:12; 26:14; suffix רָמְחֵיהֶם Nehemiah 4:7.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

25:7

Judges

5:8

1 Kings

18:28

1 Chronicles

12:8; 12:9; 12:24; 12:25

2 Chronicles

11:12; 14:7; 25:5; 26:14

Nehemiah

4:7; 4:10; 4:15

Jeremiah

46:4

Ezekiel

39:9

H7420

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7420 matches the Hebrew רֹמַח (rōmaḥ),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:7 - And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:28 - So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 - And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:24 - There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:12 - And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:8 - And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:5 - Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:14 - And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:13 - So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:16 - And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:21 - So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:4 - Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:9 - And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:10 - Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
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