Greek noun (feminine) · G4501
ῥομφαία
rhomphaiahrom-fah'-yah
sword
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rhomphaía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4501is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4501
a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: sword.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
rhomphaia is rendered "sword". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 2:35so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your soul as well.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your soul as well.”
Luke 2:35ῥομφαία
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seven uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sword4
- a sword2
- a sword —1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ῥομφαία3
- ῥομφαίᾳ3
- ῥομφαίαν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular3N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Luke
one use
so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your soul as well.”
- ῥομφαίαrhomphaianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a sword —
Revelation
six uses
He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
- ῥομφαίαrhomphaianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a sword
To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of the One who holds the sharp, double-edged sword.
- ῥομφαίανrhomphaiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sword
Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.
- ῥομφαίᾳrhomphaianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: sword
Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.
- ῥομφαίᾳrhomphaianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: sword
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
- ῥομφαίαrhomphaianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a sword
And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
- ῥομφαίᾳrhomphaianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: sword
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.