noun · feminine
romfaias
Strong’sG4501
a sword, piercing grief
stem romfai-7 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ῥομφαία, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for חֶרֶב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4501 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhrom-fah'-yah
a sabre, i.e. a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind, literally or figuratively)
Fromprobably of foreign origin;
King Jamessword.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
large, broad sword, used by the Thracians, ὀρθὰς ῥ. βαρυσιδήρους ἀπὸ τῶν δεξιῶν ὤμων ἐπισείοντες Refs 3rd c.BC+: generally, sword, LXX+NT+4th c.AD+; of the sword of Goliath, LXX+1st c.AD+
II ={νυκτερίς}, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | romfaias3×ῥομφαία | romfaiais |
| object accusative | romfaian1×ῥομφαίαν | romfaiain |
| direct address vocative | romfaiar | romfaiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | romfaiau | romfaiaiu |
| to, for dative | romfaia3×ῥομφαίᾳ | romfaiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
romfaia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
romfaias“sword”subjectnominative singular3×
Luke 2:35… su de autau tan psuchan diercheti romfaias, hopōs an apokaluptileia ek pollaiu kardiaiu …… hearts will be revealed — and a sword will pierce your soul as well.”
Revelation 1:16… hepta, kai ek teu stomeu autou romfaias distomas oxuas ekporeuorōntas, kai tas opsias …… seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face …
Revelation 19:15kai ek teu stomeu autou ekporeuotō romfaias oxuas, hina en auta pataxateia teim …… from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the …
romfaian“sword”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 2:12… grafasar; Hōdeim legatō tos echarōntos tan romfaian tan distoman tan oxuan;… One who holds the sharp, double-edged sword.
romfaia“sword”to, fordative singular3×
Revelation 2:16… kai polemami meta autoiu en ta romfaia teu stomeu mu.… wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.
Revelation 6:8… tem tetartem tau gēau, apoktenara en romfaia kai en limo kai en thanato …… of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by …
Revelation 19:21kai tois loipois apoktenila en ta romfaia tou kathorōntou epi tou hippou ta …… the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of …