Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7420
רֹמַח
romachro'-makh
spear
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rômach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7420is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7420
a lance (as thrown); especially the iron point
The King James renders it: buckler, javelin, lancet, spear.
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
romach is rendered "spear". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 25:7On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
Numbers 25:7רֹ֖מַח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's fifteen uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and spear3
- and spears2
- a spear1
- and a spear1
- and the spears1
- and with spear1
- and with the lances1
- into spears1
- on the spears1
- spear1
- spears their1
- the spears1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- וָרֹ֑מַח2
- בָּֽרְמָחִ֔ים1
- הָֽרְמָחִ֔ים1
- וּבְרֹ֑מַח1
- וּבָֽרְמָחִ֑ים1
- וְהָרְמָחִ֣ים1
- וָרֹ֔מַח1
- וָרֹמַח֒1
- וּרְמָחִ֔ים1
- וּרְמָחִים֙1
- לִרְמָחִ֑ים1
- רֹ֖מַח1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular4HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural2HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HRd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Numbers
one use
On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
- רֹ֖מַחromachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a spear
Judges
one use
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
- וָרֹ֔מַחvaromachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a spear
1 Kings
one use
So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
- וּבָֽרְמָחִ֑יםuvaremachimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and with the lances
1 Chronicles
two uses
Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. 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:
- וָרֹ֑מַחvaromachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and spear
From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
- וָרֹ֑מַחvaromachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and spear
2 Chronicles
four uses
He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
- וּרְמָחִ֔יםuremachimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and spears
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.
- וָרֹמַח֒varomachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and spear
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.
- רֹ֥מַחromachnoun · masculine singulartagged: spear
Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
- וּרְמָחִים֙uremachimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and spears
Nehemiah
three uses
So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
- רָמְחֵיהֶ֖םramecheihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: spears their
And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah
- וְהָרְמָחִ֣יםveharemachimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the spears
So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.
- בָּֽרְמָחִ֔יםbaremachimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: on the spears
Jeremiah
one use
Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
- הָֽרְמָחִ֔יםharemachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the spears
Ezekiel
one use
Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
- וּבְרֹ֑מַחuveromachconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with spear
Joel
one use
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
- לִרְמָחִ֑יםlirmachimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: into spears
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.