sword

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Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment Job Chapter 20 Sophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and their sudden downfall 20:1.

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  1. noun A weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt.
  2. noun An instrument of death or destruction.
  3. noun The use of force, as in war.

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knife ·  weapon ·  dagger ·  arm ·  spear ·  arrow ·  bow ·  shield ·  ring ·  horse ·  hat ·  leg

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  1. Middle English, from Old English sweord.

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  1. Early modern English also swerd; from Middle English sword, swerd, sweord, from Anglo-Saxon sweord = Old Saxon swerd = OFries. swerd, swird = Middle Dutch sweerd, swaerd, Dutch zwaard = Middle Low German swert, Low German sweerd = Old High German Middle High German swert, German schwert = Icelandic sverdh = Swedish svärd = Danish sværd, a sword; root unknown. An apparently older Teutonic name appears in Anglo-Saxon heoru = Gothic (Moesogothic) hairus, a sword; cf. Sanskrit çãru, spear or arrow.
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