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Strong’s H4043 · Hebrew

מָגֵן

mâgên · maw-gane'

Origin also (in plural) feminine מְגִנָּה; from גָּנַן (H1598);

Meaning a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile

In the King James Version [idiom] armed, buckler, defence, ruler, [phrase] scale, shield.

In 60 verses of the King James Version

51–60 of 60

  1. Isaiah 37:33Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
  2. Jeremiah 46:3Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
  3. Jeremiah 46:9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
  4. Ezekiel 23:24And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
  5. Ezekiel 27:10They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
  6. Ezekiel 38:4And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
  7. Ezekiel 38:5Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
  8. Ezekiel 39:9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
  9. Hosea 4:18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
  10. Nahum 2:3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

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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