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:
Isaiah 66:19: "Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off,"
Jeremiah 4:29: "shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets,"
Jeremiah 6:23: "They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice"
Jeremiah 9:3: "And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth"
Jeremiah 46:9: "and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow."
Jeremiah 49:35: "Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might."
Jeremiah 50:14: "round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no"
Jeremiah 50:29: "Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let"
Jeremiah 50:42: "They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice"
Jeremiah 51:3: "him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare"
Jeremiah 51:56: "Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God"
Lamentations 2:4: "He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all"
Lamentations 3:12: "He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow."
Ezekiel 1:28: "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so"
Ezekiel 39:3: "And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right"
Ezekiel 39:9: "the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears,"
Hosea 1:5: "day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
Hosea 1:7: "their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen."
Hosea 2:18: "and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth,"
Hosea 7:16: "to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage"
Amos 2:15: "Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver"
Habakkuk 3:9: " Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave"
Zechariah 9:10: "from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak"
Zechariah 9:13: "I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion,"
Zechariah 10:4: "him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together."
