Arrow
חֵ֫צִיStrong’s H2678chitstsi (chits-tsi)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chitstsi is the Hebrew word usually translated “arrow”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.”
Meaning
- Arrow
How it's translated
- the arrow 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 20:37And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
- 2 Kings 9:24And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
Hebrew dictionary
חֵ֫צִי chitstsi · 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.