קֶשֶׁת qeshet

Hebrew word for “bow” · Strong’s H7198 · used 76 times in 74 verses

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Meaning

1) bow; 1a) bow (for hunting, battle); 1b) bowmen, archers; 1c) bow (fig. of might); 1d) rainbow

How it is translated

Glosses given for qeshet in context, with how often each is used:

• bow 64
• bows 8
• like a bow 2
• bowmen 1
• rainbow 1

Where it is used

Also in 7 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 9 (3), Jeremiah 50 (3), 2 Samuel 1 (2), 2 Kings 13 (2), Nehemiah 4 (2), Psalms 37 (2), Psalms 78 (2), Isaiah 21 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Ezekiel 39 (2)

Forms

• קשׁת 33
• בקשׁת 8
• קשׁתו 7
• הקשׁת 5
• וקשׁתות 2
• קשׁתם 2
• כקשׁת 2
• קשׁתך 2
• קשׁתי 1
• וקשׁתך 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qeshet more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• דָּרַךְ darakh “to tread” 16
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 18
• מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 14
• חֵץ chets “arrow” 9
• מָגֵן magen “shield” 8
• גִּבּוֹר gibbor “mighty man” 9
• רֹמַח romach “spear” 5
• סוּס sus “horse” 7
• שִׁרְיוֹן shiryon “armor” 4
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 6
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 9
• הָפַךְ haphakh “to overturn” 5

Key verses

The verses using qeshet that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 49:24 — But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of…
• Psalms 46:9 — He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
• Isaiah 66:19 — And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and…
• Jeremiah 9:3 — And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know…
• Jeremiah 50:29 — Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her…
• Jeremiah 51:56 — Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall…
• Lamentations 2:4 — He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter…
• Ezekiel 1:28 — As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the…
• Hosea 1:7 — But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses,…
• Hosea 2:18 — And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I…
• Zechariah 9:10 — And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and…
• Zechariah 9:13 — When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.