Strong's #2719: chereb (pronounced kheh'-reb)
from 2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement:--axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chereb
1) sword, knife
1a) sword
1b) knife
1c) tools for cutting stone
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H2717
Usage:
This word is used 413 times:
2 Chronicles 20:9: "when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand"
2 Chronicles 21:4: "all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel."
2 Chronicles 23:14: "of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword."
2 Chronicles 23:21: "was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword."
2 Chronicles 29:9: "For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity"
2 Chronicles 32:21: "they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword."
2 Chronicles 34:6: "and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about."
2 Chronicles 36:17: "of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary,"
2 Chronicles 36:20: "And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants"
Ezra 9:7: "been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion"
Nehemiah 4:13: "I even set the people after their families their swords, their spears, and their bows."
Nehemiah 4:18: "For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded"
Esther 9:5: "all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would"
Job 1:15: "yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped"
Job 1:17: "yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone"
Job 5:15: "But he saveth the poor from the sword, from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand"
Job 5:20: "thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword."
Job 15:22: "and he is waited for of the sword."
Job 19:29: "Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,"
Job 19:29: "the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment."
Job 27:14: "his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread."
Job 39:22: "neither turneth he back from the sword."
Job 40:19: "of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach"
Job 41:26: " The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon."
Psalms 7:12: "he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready."
Psalms 17:13: "him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:"
Psalms 22:20: "Deliver my soul from the sword; from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog."
Psalms 37:14: "The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy,"
Psalms 37:15: " Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken."
Psalms 44:3: "they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but"
Psalms 44:6: "trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save"
Psalms 45:3: "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty."
Psalms 57:4: "and arrows, a sharp sword."
Psalms 59:7: "Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?"
Psalms 63:10: "They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes."
Psalms 64:3: "Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:"
Psalms 76:3: "he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah."
Psalms 78:62: "He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance."
Psalms 78:64: "Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
Psalms 89:43: "Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle."
Psalms 144:10: "David his servant from the hurtful sword. sword."
Psalms 149:6: "praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;"
Proverbs 5:4: "as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword."
Proverbs 12:18: "There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health."
Proverbs 25:18: "witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow."
Proverbs 30:14: "There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth,"
Song of Solomon 3:8: "They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon"
Song of Solomon 3:8: "being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear"
Isaiah 1:20: "ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 2:4: "many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears nation"
