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1 Samuel 17:7
“And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חֵץchêts · khayts
H2671 · Hebrew
H2671 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
- Derivation
- from H2686 (חָצַץ); also by interchange for H6086 (עֵץ)
- KJV renderings
- [phrase] archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
- Grammar
- ו — conjunction
- חץ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 45 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 49:23Numbers 24:8Deuteronomy 32:23Deuteronomy 32:422 Samuel 22:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חֵץ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.