. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . a short sword or dagger; afterward a sabre orbent svmrd; compare xiphos, above) is translated sword in Ecclus. xxviii. 18; 1 Mc. iii. 12, x. 85 :Mat. x. 34, xxvi. 47 ff., and often in the N. T.; andvery often in the LXX. = Heb. hereb (Gen. , &c). Girding on the sword symbolically =commencing war; and a similar expression denotesthose able to serve (Judg. viii. 10; 1 Chr. xxi. 5).We read of swords with two edges (Judg. iii. 16 ;Ps. cxlix. 6; Ecclus. xxi. 3 Heb. iv. 12 ; 16. ARM ARM 65 ii. 12), and whetting the sword (Deut. xxxii.
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . a short sword or dagger; afterward a sabre orbent svmrd; compare xiphos, above) is translated sword in Ecclus. xxviii. 18; 1 Mc. iii. 12, x. 85 :Mat. x. 34, xxvi. 47 ff., and often in the N. T.; andvery often in the LXX. = Heb. hereb (Gen. , &c). Girding on the sword symbolically =commencing war; and a similar expression denotesthose able to serve (Judg. viii. 10; 1 Chr. xxi. 5).We read of swords with two edges (Judg. iii. 16 ;Ps. cxlix. 6; Ecclus. xxi. 3 Heb. iv. 12 ; 16. ARM ARM 65 ii. 12), and whetting the sword (Deut. xxxii. lxiv. 3 ; Ez. xxi. 9). Douotless it was of metal,for it was bright and glittering ; but Josh. v. 2,3 (swords of rock, A. V. sharp knives) per-haps implies that in early times the material was flint. (Axe; Knife.)—2. The Spear, of whichthere were at least three distinct kinds, a. The Spear (Heb. haiiUh or chanith), apparently of thelargest kind. It was the weapon of Goliath (1 7, 45 ; 2 Sam. xxi. 19 ; 1 Chr. xx. 5), and of.
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