rhomphaia: a sword, piercing grief Original Word: ῥομφαία, ας, ἡ Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: rhomphaia Phonetic Spelling: (hrom-fah'-yah) Short Definition: a sword, piercing grief Definition: a sword, scimitar; fig: war, piercing grief.
4501 rhomphaía – a long Thracian sword; "a sword, scimitar" (Souter). 4501 (rhomphaía) is "a large, broad sword" that both cuts and pierces – an imposing sword, synonymous with finality (dominance). STRONGS NT 4501: ῤομφαίαῤομφαία, ῤομφαίας, ἡ, a large sword; properly, a long Thracian javelin (cf. Rich, Dict. of Antiq. under the word Rhompaea); also a kind of long sword usually worn on the right shoulder (Hesychius ῤομφαία. Θρακιον ἀμυντηριον, μάχαιρα, ξίφος ἤ ἀκόντιον μακρόν; (Suidas 3223 c. (cf. ῥεμβω to revolve, vibrate)); cf. Plutarch, Aemil. 18); (A. V. sword): Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12, 16; Revelation 6:8; Revelation 19:15, 21; σου δέ αὐτῆς τήν ψυχήν διελεύσεται ῤομφαία, a figure for 'extreme anguish shall fill (pierce, as it were) thy soul', Luke 2:35, where cf. Kuinoel. (Josephus, Antiquities 6, 12, 4; 7, 12, 1; in Ev. Nicod. 26 the archangel Michael, keeper of Paradise, is called ἡ φλογινη ῤομφαία. Very often in the Sept. for חֶרֶב; often also in the O. T. Apocrypha.)
sword. Probably of foreign origin; a sabre, i.e. A long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively) -- sword.
ἔρριψαν — 2 Occ. ἔρριπται — 1 Occ. ῥίψαν — 1 Occ. ῥίψαντες — 1 Occ. ῥίψας — 1 Occ. Ῥοβοάμ — 2 Occ. Ῥόδη — 1 Occ. Ῥόδον — 1 Occ. ῥοιζηδὸν — 1 Occ. ῥομφαία — 6 Occ. Ῥουβὴν — 1 Occ. Ῥούθ — 1 Occ. Ῥοῦφον — 1 Occ. Ῥούφου — 1 Occ. ῥύμαις — 1 Occ. ῥύμας — 1 Occ. ῥύμην — 2 Occ. ἐρρύσατο — 4 Occ. ἐρρύσθην — 1 Occ. ῥύεσθαι — 1 Occ.
| |  Strong's Greek 4501 7 Occurrences
ῥομφαία — 6 Occ. ῥομφαίαν — 1 Occ.
Luke 2:35 N-NFS BIB: ψυχὴν διελεύσεται ῥομφαία ὅπως ἂν NAS: and a sword will pierce even KJV: (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy INT: soul will go through a sword so that anyhowRevelation 1:16 N-NFS BIB: στόματος αὐτοῦ ῥομφαία δίστομος ὀξεῖα NAS: two-edged sword; and His face KJV: a sharp twoedged sword: and his INT: mouth of him a sword two-edged sharp Revelation 2:12 N-AFS BIB: ἔχων τὴν ῥομφαίαν τὴν δίστομον NAS: the sharp two-edged sword says this: KJV: the sharp sword with two edges; INT: has the sword two-edged Revelation 2:16 N-DFS BIB: ἐν τῇ ῥομφαίᾳ τοῦ στόματός NAS: against them with the sword of My mouth. KJV: them with the sword of my mouth. INT: with the sword the mouth Revelation 6:8 N-DFS BIB: ἀποκτεῖναι ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ καὶ ἐν NAS: to kill with sword and with famine KJV: to kill with sword, and with INT: to kill with sword and with Revelation 19:15 N-NFS BIB: αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύεται ῥομφαία ὀξεῖα ἵνα NAS: a sharp sword, so KJV: goeth a sharp sword, that with INT: of him goes forth a sword sharp that Revelation 19:21 N-DFS BIB: ἐν τῇ ῥομφαίᾳ τοῦ καθημένου NAS: were killed with the sword which came KJV: with the sword of him that sat INT: with the sword of him who sits 7 Occurrences
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