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Words
μάχαιρα G3162
- Home gloss
- sword
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- knife / knife / dagger
- Note
- The common blade, short sword or knife: "all who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Matt 26:52); "the sword of the spirit" (Eph 6:17); Heb 4:12. "Broadsword" is ῥομφαία's (Luke 2:35)
- Rulings
- 2, 33, 147
Occurrences (3)
- 22:6 Now Abraham took the wood of the whole-fruit offering and laid it on Isaac his son; now he took also the fire in hand, and the sword; and the two went together.
- 22:10 And Abraham stretched out his hand to take the sword, to slay his son.
- 27:40 And on your sword you shall live,and to your brother you shall be slave;but it shall be, at the time when you take down,you shall unloose his yoke from your neck."