חנית

From the root חָנָה‎ (ḥānā, “incline to, to bend down, verge toward”) with the feminine suffix ת-, Classical Syriac ܚܢܐ‎ (ḥənā) also meaning specifically “to aim”.

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חֲנִית • (khanít) f (plural indefinite חֲנִיתוֹת‎ or חֲנִיתִים‎)

1. a spear, a javelin
   • Isaiah 2:4, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏וְשָׁפַט בֵּין הַגֹּויִם וְהֹוכִיחַ לְעַמִּים רַבִּים וְכִתְּתוּ חַרְבֹותָם לְאִתִּים וַחֲנִיתֹֽותֵיהֶם לְמַזְמֵרֹות לֹא־יִשָּׂא גֹוי אֶל־גֹּוי חֶרֶב וְלֹא־יִלְמְדוּ עֹוד מִלְחָמָֽה׃‎‎

     And He shall judge between the nations, / And shall decide for many peoples; / And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, / And their spears into pruninghooks; / Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, / Neither shall they learn war any more.

   • 2 Chronicles 23:9, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏וַיִּתֵּן יְהֹויָדָע הַכֹּהֵן לְשָׂרֵי הַמֵּאֹות אֶת־הַֽחֲנִיתִים וְאֶת־הַמָּגִנֹּות וְאֶת־הַשְּׁלָטִים אֲשֶׁר לַמֶּלֶךְ דָּוִיד אֲשֶׁר בֵּית הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃‎‎

     And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.

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• Egyptian ḥnyt (“spear”).

• כִּידוֹן‎ m (kidon)

• Noonan, B. J. (2019). Non-Semitic loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A lexicon of language contact (Vol. 14). Penn State Press. 329.
• Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 229