Romach רֹ֫מַח

Romach (Hebrew רֹ֫מַח, Strong's H7420) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “spear”. It occurs 15 times in 15 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Romach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Numbers

• Numbers 25:7
  And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

Judges

• Judges 5:8
  They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 18:28
  And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 12:8
  And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
• 1 Chronicles 12:24
  The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 11:12
  And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
• 2 Chronicles 14:8
  And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.
• 2 Chronicles 25:5
  Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
• 2 Chronicles 26:14
  And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 4:13
  Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
• Nehemiah 4:16
  And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah
• Nehemiah 4:21
  So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 46:4
  Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 39:9
  And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.

Joel

• Joel 3:10
  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).