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Sword
Featured studies
2 results- StudyThe SwordA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Wall: the 52-Day RebuildA four-month burden, a mid-sentence prayer to the king, a night ride around the ruins, and a wall finished in fifty-two days despite mockery, conspiracy, and an internal crisis of exploited debtors…
Verses
404 results- Verse1 Kings 3:24The king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,
- VerseMatthew 26:52“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
- VerseExodus 17:13So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his army with the sword.
- VersePsalms 78:64His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
- VerseIsaiah 3:25Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
People
4 results- PersonNehemiahCupbearer to Artaxerxes who wept over Jerusalem's ruins, rebuilt the wall in fifty-two days with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other, and governed with clean hands…
- PersonGoliathThe Philistine champion of Gath who defied the armies of the living God for forty days — felled by a shepherd's sling stone and beheaded with his own sword in the valley of Elah.
- PersonAhimelechPriest of Nob who gave the fugitive David the showbread and Goliath's sword, not knowing the king's quarrel; slain with eighty-five priests on Saul's order at Doeg's hand.
- PersonHerod Agrippa IThe king who killed James the brother of John with the sword, imprisoned Peter, and died at Caesarea after accepting the acclamation of a crowd calling his voice the voice of a…
Places
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11 results- WordH2719 חֶרֶב · chereb (Hebrew)drought. The Hebrew word stands 413 times in the original text.
- WordG3162 μάχαιρα · máchaira (Greek)a knife, i.e. dirk. The Greek word stands 29 times in the original text.
- WordH7524 רֶצַח · retsach (Hebrew)a crushing. The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH7973 שֶׁלַח · shelach (Hebrew)a missile of attack, i.e. spear. The Hebrew word stands 8 times in the original text.
- WordG4501 ῥομφαία · rhomphaía (Greek)a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively). The Greek word stands 7 times in the original text.
Themes
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1 resultVoices
5 results- VoiceEznik of KolbEznik was an Armenian, born around 380, and he belongs to the single most productive generation in the history of his nation's literature. Armenia had adopted Christianity as a…
- VoiceHarold R. EberleDr. Harold R. Eberle (born 1953) is an American charismatic-evangelical Bible teacher, author, and the founder/director of Worldcast Ministries and Worldcast Publishing…
- VoiceJulius Firmicus MaternusJulius Firmicus Maternus was a Sicilian of senatorial rank who practiced law at Rome in the reign of Constantine. He is one of the very few writers of the ancient world who…
- VoiceAlcuin of YorkAlcuin was born in Northumbria about 735, the year Bede died, and was educated at the cathedral school of York under Archbishop Ecgbert — Bede's own pupil. York had one of the…
- VoiceJonathan GoforthJonathan Goforth grew up on an Ontario farm, was converted as a teenager, and sailed for China in 1888 with his wife Rosalind. They buried five of their eleven children on the…
Apocrypha (study resources)
77 results- Study resource2 Esdras 16:3A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back?
- Study resourceSirach 40:9Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;
- Study resource2 Esdras 12:27For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword.
- Study resource2 Esdras 12:28For the sword of the one shall devour the other: but at the last shall he fall through the sword himself.
- Study resourceSirach 21:3All iniquity is as a two edged sword, the wounds whereof cannot be healed.
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H2719חֶרֶב chereb — droughtG3162μάχαιρα máchaira — a knife, i.e.
dirkH7524רֶצַח retsach — a crushingH7973שֶׁלַח shelach — a missile of attack, i.e. spearG4501ῥομφαία rhomphaía — a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass
(any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively)H6609פְּתִחָה pᵉthichâh — something opened, i.e. a drawn sword