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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Spear

[ARMS, ARMOR]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.

2. (n.) Fig.: A spearman.

3. (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.

4. (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

5. (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.

6. (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.

7. (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.

8. (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SPEAR; SPEARMEN

sper, sper'-men.

See ARMOR, III, 4; ARMY, 7.

Greek

3057. logche -- a lance or spear
... a lance or spear. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: logche Phonetic
Spelling: (long'-khay) Short Definition: a lance, spear Definition: a lance ...
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1187. dexiolabos -- probably a spearman or slinger
... Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: dexiolabos Phonetic Spelling:
(dex-ee-ol-ab'-os) Short Definition: one posted on the right hand, a spear-man ...
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164. aichmalotos -- captive
... Word Origin from aichme (a spear) and haliskomai (to be taken, conquered)
Definition captive NASB Word Usage captives (1). captive. ...
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956. belos -- a needle
... dart, arrow From ballo; a missile, ie Spear or arrow -- dart. see GREEK ballo.
(bele) -- 1 Occurrence. 955, 956. belos. 956a . Strong's Numbers.
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Strong's Hebrew

2595. chanith -- a spear
... 2594, 2595. chanith. 2596 . a spear. Transliteration: chanith Phonetic
Spelling: (khan-eeth') Short Definition: spear. Word Origin ...
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7013. qayin -- a spear
... 7012, 7013. qayin. 7014 . a spear. Transliteration: qayin Phonetic Spelling:
(kah'-yin) Short Definition: spear. Word Origin from ...
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7420. romach -- a spear, lance
... 7419, 7420. romach. 7421 . a spear, lance. Transliteration: romach Phonetic
Spelling: (ro'-makh) Short Definition: spears. ... buckler, javelin, lancet, spear. ...
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7905. sukkah -- a barb, spear
... 7904, 7905. sukkah. 7906 . a barb, spear. Transliteration: sukkah Phonetic
Spelling: (sook-kaw') Short Definition: harpoons. Word ...
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6767b. tsiltsal -- a spear
... tsiltsal. 6767c . a spear. Transliteration: tsiltsal Short Definition: spears.
Word Origin from tsalal Definition a spear NASB Word Usage spears (1). ...
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3591. kidon -- a dart, javelin
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a dart, javelin NASB Word Usage
javelin (8), spear (1). lance, shield, spear, target. ...
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3852. lehabah -- flame, blade
... flaming, head of a spear. Or lahebeth {lah-eh'-beth}; feminine of lahab, and meaning
the same -- flame(-ming), head (of a spear). see HEBREW lahab. 3851, 3852 ...
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5722. Adino -- "voluptuous," one of David's heroes
... Adino. Probably from adiyn in the original sense of slender (ie A spear); his spear --
Adino. see HEBREW adiyn. 5721, 5722. Adino. 5723 . Strong's Numbers.
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6767. tslatsal -- whirring, buzzing
... tslatsal. 6767a . whirring, buzzing. Transliteration: tslatsal Phonetic Spelling:
(tsel-aw-tsal') Short Definition: cymbal. cymbal, locust, shadowing, spear ...
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7973. shelach -- a missile, weapon, sprout
... From shalach; a missile of attack, ie Spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth;
ie Branch -- dart, plant, X put off, sword, weapon. see HEBREW shalach. ...
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Library

Faithful unto Death.
... The next day the evil spirit came upon Saul in the house, and David played on his
harp to quiet him, but Saul hurled a spear at David, hoping to fasten him to ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxi faithful unto death.htm

The Adventures of Saint David of Wales.
... At length Saint David rode in, followed by the faithful Owen carrying his
spear. The trumpets sounded, Saint David took his spear ...
/.../kingston/the seven champions of christendom/chapter ten the adventures of.htm

A Soldier who Spared his Enemy
... Abishai said, "I will go with you." So David and Abishai came to the people by night,
and Saul was lying asleep inside the barricade, with his spear stuck into ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/a soldier who spared his.htm

Love and Remorse
... said, I will go down with thee.7. So David and Abishai came to the people by night:
and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/love and remorse.htm

David the Outcast.
... At night he took Abishai, one of his warriors, and went down from the cliffs to
Saul's camp, where Saul lay sleeping in a trench, and the spear stuck in the ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxii david the outcast.htm

The Power of a Pebble.
... to send out a man to fight with him, but he was not truly brave, for he had carefully
covered his great body with armor of brass, so that no spear or sword ...
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Saul's Mean Jealousy
... Then an evil spirit from Jehovah came upon Saul while he was sitting in his house
with his spear in his hand and while David was playing on the lyre. ...
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The Adventures of Saint James of Spain.
... were sharper than spikes of steel; and the breath, as it issued from his nostrils,
seemed like a whirlwind; his bristles looked like so many spear-heads, and ...
/.../kingston/the seven champions of christendom/chapter six the adventures of.htm

The Further Adventures of Saint George.
... Charging with a new spear, which had been presented to him by the matrons of
Bagabornabou, as a mark of their admiration of his prowess in having slain the ...
/.../the seven champions of christendom/chapter four the further adventures.htm

David's victory Over the Giant
... The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head of his iron spear
weighed about twenty pounds; and his shield-bearer went before him. ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/davids victory over the giant.htm

Thesaurus

Spear (55 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. 8. (vi)
To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. ...SPEAR; SPEARMEN. sper, sper'-men. ...
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Spear's (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Spear's (1 Occurrence). 1 Samuel 17:7 The staff
of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's...
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Weaver's (5 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 17:7 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head
weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him. ...
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Shaft (13 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself;
(Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light ...
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Javelin (16 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by the hand; anciently, a weapon
of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the ...
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Weavers (4 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 17:7 and the wood of his spear 'is' like a beam of weavers', and the flame
of his spear 'is' six hundred shekels of iron, and the bearer of the ...
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Tall (41 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 23:21 And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a tall man: and the Egyptian
had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling ...
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Egyptian's (3 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 23:21 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear
in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out ...
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Club (7 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 23:21 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear
in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out ...
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Snatched (15 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 23:21 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear
in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out ...
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Resources

What is the Spear of Destiny? | GotQuestions.org

Was Longinus the name of the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus with the spear? | GotQuestions.org

Was Goliath one of the Nephilim? | GotQuestions.org

Spear: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance

Spear (55 Occurrences)

John 19:34
However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 25:7
When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;
(WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 25:8
And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.
(BBE NIV)

Numbers 35:20
If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;
(BBE)

Joshua 8:18
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Joshua 8:26
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Judges 5:8
They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears;"
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1 Samuel 13:22
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
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1 Samuel 17:7
The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 17:45
Then said David to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 17:47
and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand."
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1 Samuel 18:10
It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 18:11
and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 19:9
An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 19:10
Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 20:33
Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 21:8
David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."
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1 Samuel 22:6
Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:7
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:11
Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:16
This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:22
David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 1:6
The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 2:23
However he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. It happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 21:16
and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 21:19
There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 23:7
But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their place."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 23:8
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
(KJV JPS WBS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 23:18
Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 23:21
He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 11:10
The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.
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1 Chronicles 11:11
This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 11:20
Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 11:23
He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 12:8
Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 12:24
The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 12:34
Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 20:5
There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 14:8
Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.
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Nehemiah 4:17
Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other;
(BBE)

Job 20:24
He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;
(BBE)

Job 39:23
The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 41:26
If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 41:29
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Psalms 35:3
Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 46:9
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
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Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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Isaiah 13:15
Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 6:23
They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 50:42
They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY RSV NIV)

Nahum 3:3
the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
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Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
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Subtopics

Spear

Spear: An offensive Weapon

Spear: Called the Glittering Spear

Spear: Changed Into Pruning-Hooks

Spear: Different Kinds of Darts

Spear: Different Kinds of Javelins

Spear: Different Kinds of Lances

Spear: First Mention of, in Scripture

Spear: Frequently Thrown from the Hand

Spear: Frequently Used by Horse Soldiers

Spear: Furbished Before War