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מְכֵרָה

me.khe.rah

sword

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Strong’s H4380Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

swords1

In the text

Genesis 49:5מְכֵרֹתֵיהֶם
Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מְכֵרָה] n.[f.] prob. the name of a weapon, only pl. Gn 49:5

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.