Gematria of Sword
3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “sword” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 422 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 3
- Occurrences
- 422
- Distinct values
- 3
The 3 Hebrew words rendered “sword”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
First appearance ·Genesis 3:24בראשית ג:כדהַחֶרֶב
a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch
First appearance ·Joel 2:8יואל ב:חהַשֶּׁלַח
a crushing; specifically, a murder-cry
First appearance ·Ezekiel 21:27יחזקאל כא:כזבְּרֶצַח
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of sword?
The Tanakh renders “sword” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: חרב = 210, שלח = 338 and רצח = 298.
How do you say sword in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “sword”; the most frequent are חרב (chereb), 412 times; שלח (shelach), 8 times; רצח (retsach), 2 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.