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staff of his spear

"the handle of his spear"

loop of cord

"rope rolled up into a cirlce"

six hundred shekels of iron

A shekel is a unit of weight equal to about 11 grams. AT: “about 7 kilograms” (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/biblicalweight)