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Strong’s G3691 · Greek

ὀξύς

oxýs · oz-oos'

Origin probably akin to the base of ἀκμήν (G188) ("acid");

Meaning keen; by analogy, rapid

In the King James Version sharp, swift.

In 7 verses of the King James Version

  1. Romans 3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
  2. Revelation 1:16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
  3. Revelation 2:12And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
  4. Revelation 14:14And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
  5. Revelation 14:17And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
  6. Revelation 14:18And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
  7. Revelation 19:15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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