Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
spear
Usage: spear, lance
Romach means “buckler” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7420 רוֹמַח (romach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. romach (ro'-makh) n-m. 1. a lance (as thrown) 2. especially the iron point It has 15 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include javelin, lancets, buckler, and bucklers. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
romach (ro'-makh) n-m. 1. a lance (as thrown) 2. especially the iron point [from an unused root meaning to hurl] KJV: buckler, javelin, lancet, spear.
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spear
Usage: spear, lance
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render romach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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;
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7420.
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;
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
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;
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
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.
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.
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
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.
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.
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
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:
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7420, grouped by book.
Romach (Strong's H7420) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "buckler". romach (ro'-makh) n-m. 1. a lance (as thrown) 2. especially the iron point
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H7420 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7420 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as javelin, lancets, buckler, and bucklers. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.