1. רמח
to cast, throw; to shoot; properly “to רמח he =( רְמָא throw arrows
The corpus record — Hebrew
רֹ֖מַח
romach
to cast, throw; to shoot; properly “to רמח he =( רְמָא throw arrows
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 15 · 0.49/10k
Senses
2. רֹ֫מַח
spear, lance
3. רֹמַח
a lance (as thrown); especially the iron point
Attestations
- רֹ֖מַח Numbers 25:7 (BHS)
- וָ/רֹ֔מַח Judges 5:8 (BHS)
- וּ/בָֽ/רְמָחִ֑ים 1 Kings 18:28 (BHS)
- הָֽ/רְמָחִ֔ים Jeremiah 46:4 (BHS)
- וּ/בְ/רֹ֑מַח Ezekiel 39:9 (BHS)
- לִ/רְמָחִ֑ים Joel 4:10 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.