Bow
קֶ֫שֶׁתStrong’s H7198qeshet (qe-shet)
Appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeshet is the Hebrew word usually translated “bow”, “bow his” and “bow of”. It appears in 74 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.”
Meaning
- Bowbow (for hunting, battle) · bowmen, archers · bow (fig. of might) · rainbow
How it's translated
- a bow 17
- bow his 7
- bow 6
- bow of 5
- the bow 4
- a bow of 4
- with the bow 3
- on the bow 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 10
- Jeremiah 10
- Isaiah 8
- Genesis 7
- 2 Kings 4
- 1 Chronicles 4
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:13In contextWhen I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
- Zechariah 10:4In contextOut of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
- Genesis 9:13I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
- Genesis 9:16And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
- Genesis 21:16And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
All 74 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫שֶׁת qeshet · bow
1) bow 1a) bow (for hunting, battle) 1b) bowmen, archers 1c) bow (fig. of might) 1d) rainbow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOW, verb transitive
- To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines.
- To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head.
- To bend or incline towards, in condescension.
- To depress; to crush; to subdue.
All definitions and other forms of “bow”
BOW, verb intransitive
To bend; to curve; to be inflected; to bend, in token of reverence, respect or civility; often with down.
- To stoop; to fall upon the knees.
- To sink under pressure.
BOW, noun
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.
BOW, noun
[See bow to bend.]
An instrument of war, and hunting, made of wood, or other elastic matter, with a string fastened to each end. The bow being bent by drawing the string, and suddenly returning to its natural state by its elastic force, throws an arrow to a great distance, and with force sufficient to kill an animal. It is of two kinds, the long-bow, and the cross-bow, arbalest or arbalest. The use of the bow is called archery.
- Any thing bent, or in form of a curve; the rainbow; the doubling of a string in a knot; the part of a yoke which embraces the neck; etc.
- A small machine, formed with a stick and hairs, which being drawn over the strings of an instrument of music, causes it to sound.
- A beam of wood or brass, with three long screws that direct a lathe of wood or steel to any arch; used in forming drafts of ships, and projections of the sphere, or wherever it is necessary to draw large arches.
- An instrument for taking the sun's altitude at sea, consisting of a large arch of ninety degrees graduated, a shank or staff, a side-vane, a sight-vane, and a horizon-vane; now disused.
- An instrument in use among smiths for turning a drill; with turners, for turning wood; with hatters, for breaking fur and wool.
- Bows of a saddle, are the two pieces of wood laid archwise to receive the upper part of a horse's back, to give the saddle its due form, and to keep it tight.
- bow of a ship, is the rounding part of her side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow.
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.