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Bowman

קַשָּׁתStrong’s H7199

qashshat (qash-shat)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Qashshat is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowman”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.”
Genesis 21:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. Bowman, archer
How it's translated
  • a bowman 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    קַשָּׁת qashshat · bowman

    bowman, archer

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “bowman” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    BOWMAN,noun

    [bow and man.]

    A man who uses a bow; an archer.

      All definitions and other forms of “bowman”

        BOW'MAN, noun

        The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat.

          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.