TBESH · H2719
חֶ֫רֶב · che.rev · sword
1) sword, knife 1a) sword 1b) knife 1c) tools for cutting stone
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חֶ֫רֶב (che.rev) means “sword” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kheh'-reb Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
חֶ֫רֶב · che.rev · sword
1) sword, knife 1a) sword 1b) knife 1c) tools for cutting stone
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from H2717 (חָרַב); drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
KJV glosses: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the sword | 67 |
| by the sword | 64 |
| to the sword | 42 |
| a sword | 33 |
| sword | 26 |
| with the sword | 23 |
| by sword | 18 |
| my sword | 9 |
| their swords | 8 |
| his sword | 7 |
| and sword | 6 |
| and the sword | 6 |
| of the sword | 5 |
| with their swords | 5 |
| your sword | 5 |
| his own sword | 4 |
| for the sword | 3 |
| from the sword | 3 |
| with swords | 3 |
| by the swords | 2 |
| destined for the sword | 2 |
| knives | 2 |
| o sword | 2 |
| or sword | 2 |
| swords | 2 |
| swordsmen | 2 |
| with his sword | 2 |
| with my sword | 2 |
| with sword | 2 |
| your swords | 2 |
| a chisel | 1 |
| against the dagger | 1 |
| and a sword | 1 |
| and by his sword | 1 |
| and drought | 1 |
| and subjected to the sword | 1 |
| and thrust his sword | 1 |
| and will make the sword | 1 |
| are swords | 1 |
| but their swords | 1 |
| by my sword | 1 |
| by their sword | 1 |
| by their swords | 1 |
| by your own sword | 1 |
| by your sword | 1 |
| can draw the sword | 1 |
| from sword | 1 |
| from war | 1 |
| has a sword | 1 |
| has his sword | 1 |
| into swords | 1 |
| is a sword | 1 |
| it with the sword | 1 |
| let a sword | 1 |
| let the sword | 1 |
| like swords | 1 |
| like the sword | 1 |
| may a sword | 1 |
| must the sword | 1 |
| nor does my sword | 1 |
| of his sword | 1 |
| of war | 1 |
| sharp words | 1 |
| themselves with knives | 1 |
| then the sword | 1 |
| to the sword as well | 1 |
| whether sword | 1 |
| while a sword | 1 |
| while my sword | 1 |
| while the sword | 1 |
| who put his sword | 1 |
| whose swords | 1 |
| with a dagger | 1 |
| with his axes | 1 |
| with your own sword | 1 |
| your own sword | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| by the sword | 59 |
| of the sword | 47 |
| the sword | 43 |
| with the sword | 36 |
| sword | 26 |
| a sword | 24 |
| his sword | 13 |
| and the sword | 10 |
| to the sword | 9 |
| my sword | 7 |
| from the sword | 6 |
| swords | 6 |
| their swords | 5 |
| thy sword | 5 |
| for the sword | 4 |
| him with the sword | 4 |
| and a sword | 2 |
| and his sword | 2 |
| for a sword | 2 |
| if the sword | 2 |
| knives | 2 |
| that the sword | 2 |
| the dagger | 2 |
| thee for the sword | 2 |
| them with the sword | 2 |
| with a sword | 2 |
| with their swords | 2 |
| you by the sword | 2 |
| also unto the sword | 1 |
| and by his sword | 1 |
| and by the sword | 1 |
| and by thy sword | 1 |
| and i will cause the sword | 1 |
| and let the sword | 1 |
| and my sword | 1 |
| and sword | 1 |
| and with his axes | 1 |
| and with the sword | 1 |
| as thy sword | 1 |
| by my sword | 1 |
| by sword | 1 |
| by the swords | 1 |
| by their own sword | 1 |
| even to his sword | 1 |
| for my sword | 1 |
| for of the sword | 1 |
| from a sword | 1 |
| had his sword | 1 |
| her with the sword | 1 |
| him a dagger | 1 |
| him the sword | 1 |
| him there with the sword | 1 |
| in it by the sword | 1 |
| into swords | 1 |
| it with a knife | 1 |
| knife | 1 |
| like a sword | 1 |
| likewise on the sword | 1 |
| likewise upon his sword | 1 |
| me a sword | 1 |
| me from the sword | 1 |
| neither shall my sword | 1 |
| neither shall the sword | 1 |
| no sword | 1 |
| nor by sword | 1 |
| not his sword | 1 |
| not with sword | 1 |
| not with thy sword | 1 |
| nothing else save the sword | 1 |
| now therefore the sword | 1 |
| o sword | 1 |
| of a sword | 1 |
| of her by the sword | 1 |
| of his sword | 1 |
| of them from the sword | 1 |
| of them with the sword | 1 |
| on the sword | 1 |
| or sword | 1 |
| or with the sword | 1 |
| over against him with his sword | 1 |
| shall the sword | 1 |
| than the sword | 1 |
| that there was neither sword | 1 |
| the swords | 1 |
| thee as the sword | 1 |
| thee the sword | 1 |
| thee with the sword | 1 |
| their sword | 1 |
| them by the sword | 1 |
| them with their swords | 1 |
| therefore shall my sword | 1 |
| thereof with the sword | 1 |
| they all by the sword | 1 |
| this sword | 1 |
| thou sword | 1 |
| thou the sword | 1 |
| thy tool | 1 |
| time the sword | 1 |
| to his sword | 1 |
| to me with a sword | 1 |
| unto the sword | 1 |
| upon them the sword | 1 |
| upon your sword | 1 |
| whereas the sword | 1 |
| while that the sword | 1 |
| with knives | 1 |
| with my sword | 1 |
| with their mattocks | 1 |
| with them by the sword | 1 |
| with thy sword | 1 |
| you to the sword | 1 |
| you with the sword | 1 |
| your own sword | 1 |
Page 5 of 8. 372 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.
Read word by word“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
Read word by wordThen I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
Read word by wordThey have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
Read word by wordThey will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
Read word by wordDo not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
Read word by wordI will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.15
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
Read word by wordOver all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
Read word by wordAlthough they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
Read word by word“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
Read word by wordAnd the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
Read word by wordIf I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
Read word by wordIf they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’
Read word by wordI will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
Read word by wordThe mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
Read word by wordTherefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Read word by wordAnd in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by wordFor this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.
Read word by word‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
Read word by wordWhoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
Read word by wordAnd I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
Read word by wordAnd they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
Read word by word“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
Read word by wordFor behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
Read word by wordThe tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordThey brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
Read word by wordAs for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
Read word by wordWhy should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
Read word by wordthis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
Read word by wordI will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
Read word by wordSee how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
Read word by wordNow therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
Read word by wordFor this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:
Read word by wordYet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Read word by word“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
Read word by wordFor I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.’”
Read word by wordThen Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.
Read word by wordthen the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
Read word by wordSo all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
Read word by wordNow therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
Read word by wordHe will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.
Read word by wordAnd I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
Read word by wordI will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,
Read word by wordBut from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
Read word by wordI am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
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