G4501 – rhomphaia – ῥομφαία – sword
- Strong’s ID:
- G4501
- Greek Word:
- ῥομφαία
- Transliteration:
- rhomphaia
- Pronunciation:
- hrom-fah’-yah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 7
- Search:
- Find “rhomphaia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
probably of foreign origin; a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively):—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 sword
2) properly a long Thracian javelin, also a kind of long sword wont to be worn on the right shoulder
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.