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.”
See every passage
- Genesis 9:13, 9:14, 9:16, 21:16, 27:3, 48:22, 49:24
- Joshua 24:12
- 1 Samuel 2:4, 18:4, 31:3
- 2 Samuel 1:18, 1:22, 22:35
- 1 Kings 22:34
- 2 Kings 6:22, 9:24, 13:15, 13:16
- 1 Chronicles 5:18, 8:40, 10:3, 12:2
- 2 Chronicles 14:8, 17:17, 18:33, 26:14
- Nehemiah 4:13, 4:16
- Job 20:24, 29:20, 41:28
- Psalms 7:12, 11:2, 18:34, 37:14, 37:15, 44:6, 46:9, 76:3, 78:9, 78:57
- Isaiah 5:28, 7:24, 13:18, 21:15, 21:17, 22:3, 41:2, 66:19
- Jeremiah 4:29, 6:23, 9:3, 46:9, 49:35, 50:14, 50:29, 50:42, 51:3, 51:56
- Lamentations 2:4, 3:12
- Ezekiel 1:28, 39:3, 39:9
- Hosea 1:5, 1:7, 2:18, 7:16
- Amos 2:15
- Habakkuk 3:9
- Zechariah 9:10, 9:13, 10:4
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).