The word in Scripture

Iron in the Bible

The word iron appears 101 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Iron pictures strength, firmness, and unyielding rule. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What iron means in the Bible

Iron pictures strength, firmness, and unyielding rule.

Where the word iron appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word iron appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.”Genesis 4:22

“Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”Psalms 2:9

“Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;”Psalms 107:10

“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”Proverbs 27:17

“And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.”Isaiah 10:34

“Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;”Isaiah 48:4

“Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?”Jeremiah 15:12

“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”Revelation 19:15