Arrow
חֵץStrong’s H2671chets
Appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chets is the Hebrew word usually translated “arrows”, “arrow” and “arrows your”. It appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.”
Meaning
- Arrow
How it's translated
- the arrows 9
- an arrow 7
- arrows your 5
- arrows 3
- and arrows 3
- arrows of 3
- arrows his 3
- arrows my 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 14
- 1 Samuel 5
- 2 Kings 4
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Ezekiel 4
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
- Numbers 24:8God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
- Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
- Deuteronomy 32:42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
- 1 Samuel 20:20And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
- 1 Samuel 20:21And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.
All 50 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֵץ chets · arrow
arrow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “arrow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AR'ROW, noun
- A missive weapon of offense, straight, slender, pointed and barbed, to be shot with a bow.
- In scripture, the arrows of God are the apprehensions of his wrath, which pierce and pain the conscience. Job 6:4Psalms 38:22 Samuel 22:15
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.