43 occurrences

'Spear' in the Bible

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;

Verse ConceptsJavelinscouplesinterracial

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpNo Help In Other GodsVolunteering

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.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

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.

Verse ConceptsArmourCraftsmenIronShieldsSpearsSpinning And WeavingArmor ProtectionArmorbearerBeamsIron ObjectsWeights Of Other Things

Then David said 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.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationStrength, SpiritualStriving With GodUnreliabilityWeaponsBoldness Examples OfProtection, From GodArmies, GodJavelinsGod As A WarriorIn God's Namearmy

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."

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In IsraelSpearsTo Be Given Into One's Hands

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;

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities Ofevil, victory overHarpsMedicineProphecy, Methods Of OtSpiritsInstrumentalistsMental Illness

and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.

Verse ConceptsThrowing SpearsEscaping From PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific People

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.

Verse ConceptsAlertevil, victory overSpiritsInstrumentalistsMental Illness

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.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingEscaping From PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific Peoplesaul

Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThrowing Spears

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."

Verse ConceptsUrgencyWeaponsHasteHasty Action

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.

Verse ConceptsTamarisk

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.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

Then Abishai said 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."

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Hands

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."

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilThe Lord's AnointedFar Be It!

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.

Verse ConceptsSleep, Physical

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."

Verse ConceptsDrinking WaterThe Lord's Anointed

David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

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.

Verse ConceptsChariotsChanceAttacking With ChariotsOther Supporting

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.

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

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 armed with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalGiantsUnusedAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleWeights Of Other Things

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.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenSpearsBeamsKilling Named Individuals

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."

Verse ConceptsIronToolsTouching To HarmBurning People

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.

Verse ConceptsThree To Four HundredThree Hundred And AboveKilling Many People

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.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationSpears

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.

Verse ConceptsThirty

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.

Verse ConceptsThirtyThree To Four Hundred

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.

Verse ConceptsBeamsCraftsmenSpearsWeights And Measures, LinearGiants

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;

Verse ConceptsCommandereagernessWarriorsFast RunnersDeer

The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.

Verse ConceptsMilitary ServiceSix Thousand

Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleThirty Thousand And Up

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.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenSpearsGiants

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.

Verse ConceptsMaturity, PhysicalReadinessSpearsWarriorsThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

Verse ConceptsQuiversJavelins

If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."

Verse ConceptsAxesPursuing ViolenceThrowing SpearsWeapons Of GodGod My Salvationdeliverance

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.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthSpearsWarfare, Nature OfWeaponsDisarmamentBreaking WeaponsDestroying ChariotsI Am GodGod Makes Peace

They take hold of 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."

Verse Conceptsdaughtersequipping, physicalenemies, of Israel and JudahBackMercy, HumanSeaThings Like The SeaRoar Of NationsOppressorsSea, Metaphorical ReferencesPeople Without Mercy

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.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalenemies, of Israel and JudahMercy, HumanSeaRoar Of NationsOppressorsSea, Metaphorical ReferencesPeople Without Mercy

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,

Verse ConceptsStumblingWarfare, Nature OfRiding HorsesSpeedPeople StumblingSparklingDeath

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.

Verse ConceptsLight, NaturalLightningTheophanyThe SunSparklingWeapons Of GodControlling Sun Moon And StarsArrowsThe Moon

However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

Verse ConceptsSpearsMilitarySide Of PeopleThe CrossThe Blood Of Jesuslungs

Bible Theasaurus

Lance (8 instances)
Shaft (17 instances)
Spear (56 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חנית 
Chaniyth 
Usage: 47

כּידון 
Kiydown 
Usage: 9

צלצל 
Ts@latsal 
Usage: 6

קין 
Qayin 
Usage: 1

קנה 
Qaneh 
Usage: 62

רמח 
Romach 
Usage: 15

δεξιολάβος 
Dexiolabos 
Usage: 1

λόγχη 
Logche 
Usage: 1