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:
Amos 9:10: "the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake"
Micah 4:3: "nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords and their spears into pruning hooks:"
Micah 4:3: "into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither"
Micah 5:6: "the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver"
Micah 6:14: "and that which will I give up to the sword."
Nahum 2:13: "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour and I will cut off thy prey"
Nahum 3:3: "The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain,"
Nahum 3:15: "There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many"
Zephaniah 2:12: "also, ye shall be slain by my sword."
Haggai 2:22: "and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother."
Zechariah 9:13: "O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man."
Zechariah 11:17: "shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right"
Zechariah 13:7: "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith"
