Commenting on Goliath’s weapons, one scholar wrote the following, providing further evidence of pre-exilic scimitars (BOM: “cimeters”):
[Goliath's] sword is of an Eastern style—the Hebrew term used (כידון, kydwn) suggests a scimitar (G. Molin, “What is a kidon?” Journal of Semitic Studies, 1 [no. 4], 334-37, 335).
Source: Abernathy, B., & Krijgsman, M. (2016). Goliath. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
For a discussion on the meaning of the Hebrew kîdôn, see:
Paul Y. Hoskisson, Scimitars, Cimeters! We Have Scimitars! Do We Need Another Cimeter?
