G3162 – machaira – μάχαιρα – sword
- Strong’s ID:
- G3162
- Greek Word:
- μάχαιρα
- Transliteration:
- machaira
- Pronunciation:
- makh’-ahee-rah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 29
- Search:
- Find “machaira” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
probably feminine of a presumed derivative of G3163; a knife, i.e. dirk; figuratively, war, judicial punishment:—sword.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a large knife, used for killing animals and cutting up flesh
2) a small sword, as distinguished from a large sword
2a) curved sword, for a cutting stroke
2b) a straight sword, for thrusting
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.