λόγχη
lónchē · G3057 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Spear, lanceWarfare68 verses
Meanings
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spear
A long weapon with sharpened end used for piercing by thrusting or as a projectile by hurling
ExamplesJohn 19:34 Yet one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- חֲנִית chănîyth · H2595 · spear
- Hebrew equivalent denoting a spear or lance, the standard translation for λόγχη in the LXX and the common Hebrew term for this weapon type
- רֹמַח rômach · H7420 · spear
- Another Hebrew term for spear/lance, often used interchangeably with חֲנִית in the OT for thrusting or throwing spears
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spear6.34
- λόγχη names the weapon used to pierce Jesus' side at the crucifixion. John 19:34 records, “one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out,” the λόγχῃ naming this weapon.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λογχης, ἡ; 1. the iron point or head of a spear: Herodotus 1, 52; Ken. an. 4, 7, 16, etc.…
1. the iron point or head of a spear: Herodotus 1, 52; Ken. an. 4, 7, 16, etc.
2. a lance, spear (shaft armed with iron): Jn 19:34. (the Sept.; Pindar, Tragg., and following.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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