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- noun Alternative spelling of
makhaira .
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Hebrews describes is called a machaira (mah-kai-ruh), a small knife precise enough to flense meat and sinews from a stew bone yet strong enough to sheer through a warrior's bronze helmet.
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Hebrews describes is called a machaira (mah-kai-ruh), a small knife precise enough to flense meat and sinews from a stew bone yet strong enough to sheer through a warrior's bronze helmet.
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Hebrews describes is called a machaira (mah-kai-ruh), a small knife precise enough to flense meat and sinews from a stew bone yet strong enough to sheer through a warrior's bronze helmet.
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I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. [machaira] 35 For I have come to turn "` a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. '"
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The machaira also was a symbol of intellectual agility, used by magistrates and judges in the Roman judicial system.
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The machaira also was a symbol of intellectual agility, used by magistrates and judges in the Roman judicial system.
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The machaira also was a symbol of intellectual agility, used by magistrates and judges in the Roman judicial system.
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The knife of Agamemnon ([Greek: machaira]), which hangs from his girdle, beside his sword, [Footnote: _Iliad_, III.
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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Iakôbon ton Iôannou machaira, ho de Rhômaiôn basileus, hôs hê paradosis didaskei, katedikase ton Iôannên marturounta dia ton tês alêtheias logon eis Patmon tên nêson.]
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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