- ῥομφαία
- a large sword, scymitar
- ῤομφαία
- a sword, piercing grief
- a sword, scimitar; fig: war, piercing grief.
- ῥομφαία
- a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively)
Derivation: probably of foreign origin;KJV Usage: sword.
- ῥομφαία
- sword
- G:N-F
- ῥομφαία, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for חֶרֶב ;]
a large broad sword, used by the Thracians (see DB, iv, 634); then generally (in LXX used interchangeably with μάχαιρα, which see), a sword:; metaph., Luk.2:35.†Refs
Rev.1:16 2:12, 16 6:8 19:15, 21
(AS)
1) a large sword
2) properly a long Thracian javelin, also a kind of long sword wont to be worn on the right shoulder
2) properly a long Thracian javelin, also a kind of long sword wont to be worn on the right shoulder
ῥομφαία
rhomphaia
hrom-fah'-yah
Probably of foreign origin; a sabre, that is, a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: sword.