קֶ֫שֶׁת
qe.shet (H7198)
bow
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# The Hebrew Word Qeshet (Bow) The Hebrew term *qeshet* refers to a bow—the weapon used for shooting arrows. With 76 occurrences in the biblical text, it appears frequently enough to indicate its practical and cultural importance in ancient Israelite society. The word's consistency across these numerous instances suggests it held a stable, well-understood meaning among biblical audiences. The frequency of this term reflects the bow's central role in ancient warfare and hunting. Its appearance across 76 biblical passages indicates that bows were common enough in daily life and military contexts to warrant repeated mention in narrative, legal, and poetic texts. This prevalence demonstrates that archery was an established skill and the bow a standard tool in ancient Near Eastern life, not merely a peripheral element of biblical culture. By its sheer frequency in the biblical record, *qeshet* stands as one of the more commonly referenced weapons or tools, comparable to swords and spears. This linguistic prominence mirrors its practical prominence—the bow was essential equipment that shaped both military strategy and subsistence practices in the ancient world that produced the Hebrew scriptures.
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I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.
The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”
He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”
Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and he took bow and arrows for himself.
He said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow;” and he put his hand on it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands.
The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.
The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.
From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.”
Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.
Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
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