# Now is there not here on hand any spear or sword?

Here "on hand" is a metonym meaning "available." See how you translated this in [1 Samuel 21:3](../21/03.md). Alternate translation: "Do you have a spear or sword that you can give me?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])

# weapons

a general name for such things as swords, knives, bows and arrows, and spears