קֶשֶׁתqesheth

bow

Pronunciation: keh'-sheth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7198

Meanings

1. bow

a. for hunting (Genesis 27:3)

b. battle (Genesis 48:22; Joshua 24:12; Hosea 1:7)

c. collective = bow (-men), archers (Isaiah 21:17)

d. phrases are (1 Samuel 31:3; 1 Chronicles 10:3; Genesis 21:16)

e. bow, (passing over into) figurative of might (Genesis 49:24; 1 Samuel 2:4; Hosea 1:5)

f. figurative of divine judgment (Job 20:24)

2. rainbow (Ezekiel 1:28; Genesis 9:13; Genesis 9:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 76 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 9:13 I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.
  • Genesis 9:14 When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,
  • Genesis 9:16 When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.”
  • Genesis 21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. “I don’t want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears.
  • Genesis 27:3 Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows, and go out into the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
  • Genesis 48:22 And beyond what I have given your brothers, I am giving you an extra portion of the land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).