Akkadiankatinnuand Hebrewkīdōn, "Sword"

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Reconsidering Goliath: An Iron Age I Philistine Chariot Warrior

“…The understanding of the kîdôn as a sickle sword is consistent with references to its cognate in cuneiform (katinnu), where it is typically copper/bronze and a weapon of the god Baal, possibly Hurrian in origin (Heltzer 1989). While the author of the 1 Samuel 17 passage does not emphasize the weight of the weapon, as he does for the armor and spearhead, he does draw attention to the fact that it is made of bronze.…”