machaira

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The Greek word for sword here is "μάχαιρα" or "machaira."

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  • The Greek word for sword here is "μάχαιρα" or "machaira." —  Possessing the Treasure
  • I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. [machaira] 35 For I have come to turn "` a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. '" —  Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Gift of Eternal Life
  • The knife of Agamemnon ([Greek: machaira]), which hangs from his girdle, beside his sword, [Footnote: _Iliad_, III. —  Homer and His Age
  • Iakôbon ton Iôannou machaira, ho de Rhômaiôn basileus, hôs hê paradosis didaskei, katedikase ton Iôannên marturounta dia ton tês alêtheias logon eis Patmon tên nêson.] —  Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
 

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