חֵץ
chets (H2671)
arrow
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# The Hebrew Word for Arrow (H2671) The Hebrew term *chets* appears 53 times in the biblical text and denotes an arrow—a projectile weapon. This straightforward definition reflects its primary, consistent meaning across its biblical occurrences. The word carries no apparent secondary or metaphorical senses in the lexical data provided, indicating that biblical authors used it with semantic clarity to refer to this specific implement. The frequency of the word's appearance (53 times) suggests that arrows held practical and cultural significance in ancient Israelite contexts, whether in warfare, hunting, or as symbolic imagery. The term's stability of meaning—remaining tied to its literal referent rather than developing elaborate figurative applications—demonstrates how biblical Hebrew could maintain precision when naming concrete objects and their uses.
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God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives.
But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you;’ then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.
Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and he took bow and arrows for himself.
He said, “Open the window eastward;” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he shot. He said, “Yahweh’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you will strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.”
He said, “Take the arrows;” and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground;” and he struck three times, and stopped.
“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
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.
In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
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 sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
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.
“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows; for she has sinned against Yahweh.
“Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
“ ‘ “Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years;
The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.