che.rev is a weapon carried or drawn in battle and killing, and can frame the threat of armed violence.

The supplied verses consistently show the noun as a weapon: it is carried with other arms, drawn from a sheath, used to kill, and invoked in descriptions of armed threat, judgment, and calamity.

1. Weapon in armed conflict and killing · dominant

   The singular noun names a weapon that men bear, draw, and use: in 1 Samuel 17:51 the APB renders David taking the Philistine's weapon, drawing it from its sheath, and killing him with it; in 1 Chronicles 10:4 the same weapon is drawn and then fallen upon. It also appears in clauses of lethal violence and threat, as in 2 Samuel 12:9, where Uriah is struck down, and 2 Chronicles 20:9, where it is listed among calamities.

   1 Samuel 17:511 Chronicles 10:42 Samuel 12:92 Chronicles 20:91 Samuel 17:451 Kings 3:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun as “sword,” including a weapon that is drawn, carried, or used to kill. It also uses phrases such as “edge of the sword”; These phrases describe the verse's presentation rather than a fixed rendering in every instance.