1. The SWORD, for which several Hebrew words are used: a. baraq, often translated 'lightning;' it is 'glittering sword' in Job 20: 25. b. chereb, a sword, as laying waste. It is the word commonly used in the O.T. for sword (everywhere indeed except in the references given here under the other words): it was a straight tapering weapon, with two edges and a sharp point. Ps. 149: 6; Isa. 14: 19. It is used metaphorically for keen and piercing words, as in Ps. 57: 4; Ps. 64: 3. c. retsach, an undefined slaying weapon, translated 'sword' only in Ps. 42: 10. d. shelach, a missile of death, as a dart. Job 33: 18; Job 36: 12; Joel 2: 8. e. pethichoth, from 'to open,' is translated 'drawn sword' in Ps. 55: 21.