Definition

a knife (as pointed or edged)

Etymology

intensive perhaps from the same as H7906 (שֵׂכוּ) in the sense of H7753 (שׂוּךְ);

Word family

• שֵׂכוּ Sêkûw
• שׂוּךְ sûwk

How the KJV renders it

• knife

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.