# רֹמַח (romach)

Israeli respelling: ro-mach. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7420. 15 Old Testament occurrences.

a lance (as thrown); especially the iron point

King James renderings: buckler, javelin, lancet, spear.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/romach-h7420

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/25/7) — And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in h…
- [Judges 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/8) — They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
- [1 Kings 18:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/28) — And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
- [1 Chronicles 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/8) — And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, t…
- [1 Chronicles 12:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/24) — The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
- [2 Chronicles 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/11/12) — And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
- [2 Chronicles 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/8) — And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and dr…
- [2 Chronicles 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/5) — Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of the…
- [2 Chronicles 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/14) — And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
- [Nehemiah 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/13) — Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords…
- [Nehemiah 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/16) — And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears…
- [Nehemiah 4:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/21) — So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
- [Jeremiah 46:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/4) — Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
- [Ezekiel 39:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/9) — And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers,…
- [Joel 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/10) — Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.