Strong's #7198: qesheth (pronounced keh'-sheth)
from 7185 in the original sense (of 6983) of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris:--X arch(-er), + arrow, bow((-man, -shot)).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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qesheth
1) bow
1a) bow (for hunting, battle)
1b) bowmen, archers
1c) bow (figuratively of might)
1d) rainbow
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H7185 in the original sense of H6983 of bending
Usage:
This word is used 75 times:
Genesis 9:13: "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between"
Genesis 9:14: "a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:"
Genesis 9:16: " And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between"
Genesis 21:16: "and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said,"
Genesis 27:3: "I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;"
Genesis 48:22: "out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
Genesis 49:24: " But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands"
Joshua 24:12: "kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow."
1 Samuel 2:4: " The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength."
1 Samuel 18:4: "even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle."
2 Samuel 1:18: "them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book"
2 Samuel 1:22: "From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned"
2 Samuel 22:35: "He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms."
1 Kings 22:34: "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel"
2 Kings 6:22: "those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before"
2 Kings 9:24: "And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between"
2 Kings 13:15: "And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow"
2 Kings 13:15: "and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows."
2 Kings 13:16: "Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put"
1 Chronicles 5:18: "able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were four"
1 Chronicles 8:40: "mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons'"
1 Chronicles 10:3: "went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of"
1 Chronicles 12:2: "They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren"
1 Chronicles 12:2: "and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin."
2 Chronicles 14:8: "and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand:"
2 Chronicles 17:17: "of valor, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand."
2 Chronicles 18:33: "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel"
2 Chronicles 26:14: "and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones."
Nehemiah 4:13: "the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows."
Nehemiah 4:16: "of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all"
Job 20:24: "He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through."
Job 29:20: "My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand."
Job 41:28: " The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble."
Psalms 7:12: "he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready."
Psalms 11:2: "lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string,"
Psalms 18:34: "He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms."
Psalms 37:14: "have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay"
Psalms 37:15: "Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken."
Psalms 44:6: "For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save"
Psalms 46:9: "the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot"
Psalms 76:3: "There broke he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah."
Psalms 78:9: "of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle."
Psalms 78:57: "like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow."
Isaiah 5:28: "arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hooves shall be counted"
Isaiah 7:24: "With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become"
Isaiah 13:18: " Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye"
Isaiah 21:15: "from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from"
Isaiah 21:17: "And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for"
Isaiah 22:3: "are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound"
Isaiah 41:2: "them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow."
