כִּידוֹןkîydôwn
dart, javelin (Joshua 8:18; Jeremiah 50:42; 1 Samuel 17:6; Joshua 8:26; Job 41:21)
Pronunciation: kee-dohn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3591
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 8:18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Point the spear in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand the town over to you.” Joshua did as he was commanded.
- Joshua 8:26 For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely destroyed.
- 1 Samuel 17:6 He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder.
- 1 Samuel 17:45 David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- Job 39:23 The arrows rattle against it, and the spear and javelin flash.
- Job 41:29 Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).