Strong's Hebrew: 3591. כִּידוֹן (kidon) -- a dart, javelin

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kidon: a dart, javelin

Original Word: כִּידוֹן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: kidon
Phonetic Spelling: (kee-dohn')
Short Definition: javelin

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
a dart, javelin
NASB Translation
javelin (8), spear (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. כִּידוֺן noun [masculine] dart, javelin (Late Hebrew id.) — absolute ׳כ Joshua 8:18 6t.; כִּידֹן Jeremiah 50:42; construct כִּידוֺן 1 Samuel 17:6; — dart, javelin (distinct from חֲנִית spear, lance, q. v.), אשׁר ביד (ךׅ ׳נטה בַּכּ Joshua 8:18 (twice in verse), compare Joshua 8:26; ׳רַעַשׁ כּ Job 41:21 the rushing sound of a dart; בְּהֶרֶב ׳וּבַחֲנִית וּבְכ 1 Samuel 17:45 (weapons of Goliath), ׳כ נְחשֶׁת בֵּין כְּתֵפָיו 1 Samuel 17:6 (חֲנִית in 1 Samuel 17:7); + חֲנִית Job 39:23 also; ׳קֶשֶׁת וְכ Jeremiah 6:23; Jeremiah 50:42.

Strong's

lance, shield, spear, target

From the same as kiyd; properly, something to strike with, i.e. A dart (perhaps smaller that chaniyth) -- lance, shield, spear, target.

see HEBREW kiyd

see HEBREW chaniyth