romach · spear

What it means

romach (רֹמַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spear”.

Lance.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A long-shafted weapon with a metal point, for striking close or throwing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• spears ×8
• spear ×7

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×1

• Numbers 25:7

  When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from the midst of the community and took a spear in his hand.

• Judges 5:8

  Israel chose new gods; then there was war in the gates. Was a shield seen, or a spear, among forty thousand in Israel?

• 1 Kings 18:28

  They called out with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their custom, with swords and spears, until blood poured out on them.

• 1 Chronicles 12:8

  From the Gadites there separated themselves and went to David, to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty warriors, men of the army for war, who handled shield and spear; their faces were the faces of a lion, and they were like gazelles on the mountains in swiftness.

• 1 Chronicles 12:24

  the sons of Judah, who carried shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred, armed for the army;

• 2 Chronicles 11:12

  And in every single city he put large shields and spears, and he strengthened them very greatly. So Judah and Benjamin were his.

• 2 Chronicles 14:8

  Asa had a force carrying large shield and spear: from Judah, three hundred thousand; and from Benjamin, carrying shield and drawing the bow, two hundred and eighty thousand. All these were mighty men of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 25:5

  Amaziah gathered Judah and set them by fathers’ houses, under commanders of thousands and under commanders of hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin; and he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen men going out to the army, handling spear and large shield.

• 2 Chronicles 26:14

  Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slings.

• Nehemiah 4:13

  So I stationed in the lowest parts of the place behind the wall, in the exposed places; I stationed the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

• Nehemiah 4:16

  It happened from that day on that half of my young men were doing the work, and half of them were holding the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the officials were behind all the house of Judah.

• Nehemiah 4:21

  So we were doing the work, and half of them were holding the spears, from the rising of the dawn until the coming out of the stars.

• Jeremiah 46:4

  Harness the horses, and mount, horsemen! Take your stand in helmets! Polish the spears! Put on the armor!

• Ezekiel 39:9

  And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out, and they will make fires and kindle them with weapons, both shield and large shield, with bow and with arrows, and with hand staff and with spear; and they will make fires with them for seven years.

• Joel 3:10

  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”