רֹ֫מַח
ro.mach (H7420)
spear
AI Word Study
Based on the lexicon data, the word "ro.mach" (H7420) is a Hebrew term that translates directly to a "spear." This definition falls within the semantic domain of Warfare & Conflict, indicating its primary reference to military equipment and combat. The occurrence of "ro.mach" 15 times in the Bible suggests a significant range of usage, spanning multiple contexts, such as battles and conflicts. This frequency also implies that the spear played a substantial role in ancient warfare, potentially highlighting its importance as a primary tool or tactical element. The straightforward translation of "spear" and its association with conflict underscores the term's practical significance in biblical culture, where warfare and military strategies played a considerable part in daily life.
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When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.
They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield.
Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
“ ‘ “Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years;
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’