ro'-makh
from an unused root meaning to hurl; a lance (as thrown);
especially the iron point:--buckler, javelin, lancet, spear.
Therefore set [05975] I in the lower [08482] places [04725] behind [0310] the wall [02346], and on the higher places [06708] [06706], I even set [05975] the people [05971] after their families [04940] with their swords [02719], their spears [07420], and their bows [07198].in the…: Heb. from the lower parts of the place, etc
And it came to pass from that time [03117] forth, that the half [02677] of my servants [05288] wrought [06213] in the work [04399], and the other half [02677] of them held [02388] both the spears [07420], the shields [04043], and the bows [07198], and the habergeons [08302]; and the rulers [08269] were behind [0310] all the house [01004] of Judah [03063].
So we laboured [06213] in the work [04399]: and half [02677] of them held [02388] the spears [07420] from the rising [05927] of the morning [07837] till the stars [03556] appeared [03318].