ῥομφαία

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G4501

Transliteration: rhomphaía

Pronunciation: hrom-fah'-yah

Definition: sword

- Original: ῥομφαία

- Transliteration: Rhomphaia

- Phonetic: hrom-fah'-yah

- Definition:

1. a large sword

2. properly a long Thracian javelin, also a kind of long sword wont to be worn on the right shoulder

- Origin: probably of foreign origin

- TDNT entry: 22:34,0

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Probably of foreign origin; a sabre that is a long and broad cutlass (any weapon of the kind literally or figuratively): - sword.