G3162 μάχαιρα
Strong's Greek Concordance · 29 KJV occurrences
μάχαιρα
máchaira
Definition
a knife, i.e. dirk; figuratively, war, judicial punishment
KJV Renderings
sword
Derivation / Etymology
probably feminine of a presumed derivative of G3163 (μάχη);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 29)
- Matthew 10:34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
- Matthew 26:52Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
- Mark 14:43¶ And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
- Luke 21:24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
- Luke 22:52Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
- Acts 16:27And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
- Ephesians 6:17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
- Revelation 6:4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.