Quick Definition
a lance, spear
Strong's Definition
a "lance"
Derivation: perhaps a primary word;
KJV Usage: spear
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λόγχη, λογχης, ἡ;
1. the iron point or head of a spear: Herodotus 1, 52; Ken. an. 4, 7, 16, etc.
2. a lance, spear (shaft armed with iron): Joh_19:34. (the Sept.; Pindar, Tragg., and following.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
λόγχη lonchē 1x
pr. the head of a javelin; a spear, lance, Joh_19:34
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
λόγχη , -ης , ἡ ,
[in LXX for H7420 , etc.;]
1. a spear-head.
2. a lance, spear: Mat_27:49 ([ WH ], R , mg .), Joh_19:34 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
λόγχη [page 380]
P Lond 191 .12 (inventory of furniture A.D. 103 117) (= II. p. 265) λόγχαι ἔννεα . In an account of cures at the Asclepieium at Epidaurus, Syll 802 .95 ff. (iii/B.C.), we find the following Εὔιππος λόγχαν ἔτη ἐφόρησε ἓξ ἐν τᾶι γνάθωι· ἐγκοιτασθέντος δ᾽ (α )ὐτοῦ ἐξελὼν τὰν λ [ό ]γχαν ὁ θεὸς εἰς τὰς χῆράς οἱ ἔδωκε . ἁμέρας δὲ γενομένας ὑγιὴς ἐξῆρπε , τὰν λόγχαν ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ἔχων : cf. ib. 803 .65 (iii/B.C.)[On Incubation or the cure of disease in pagan temples and Christian churches, see Mary Hamilton s essay with that title, London, 1906.]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
λόγχη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX for רֹמַח, etc. ;]
__1. a spear-head.
__2. a lance, spear: Mat.27:49 ([WH], R, mg.), Jhn.19:34.†
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