H7420 - רֹמַח (rômach)

H7420 רֹמַח (rômach) ro'-makh

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

spear

Strong's Definition

a lance (as thrown); especially the iron point

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to hurl;

KJV Usage: buckler, javelin, lancet, spear.

TWOT Reference: 2172

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) spear, lance

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3057

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

spear, lance

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

רֹמַח rômach BDB Definition: 1) spear, lance Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to hurl Same Word by TWOT Number: 2172 Total KJV Occurrences: 15

Bible Occurrences (15)

25:7

5:8

18:28

12:8 12:24

11:12 14:8 25:5 26:14

4:13 4:16 4:21

46:4

39:9

3:10

Numbers 25:7

On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

Judges 5:8

When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

1 Kings 18:28

So they shouted louder...... and cut themselves with knives and lances, as [was] their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

1 Chronicles 12:8

Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces [were like] the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:

1 Chronicles 12:24

From Judah...: 6800......... armed troops bearing shields and spears.

2 Chronicles 11:12

He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly.... So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

2 Chronicles 14:8

Asa had an army of 300,000 men...... from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men...... from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these [were] mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 25:5

Then Amaziah gathered [the people of] Judah... and assigned them according to their families... to commanders of thousands [and] of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age... or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 {}...... chosen [men] [able] to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.