Strong's Hebrew · H7198
H7198 qesheth
קֶשֶׁת
keh'-sheth
bow
qesheth appears 76 times in Scripture, including Genesis 9:13 and Joshua 24:12. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
In the King James Version
× arch(-er), arrow, bow(-man, -shot).
Derivation
from H7185 (קָשָׁה) in the original sense (of H6983 (קוֹשׁ)) of bending;
Appears 76 times in Scripture
“And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.””
“The cornerstone will come from Judah, the tent peg from him, as well as the battle bow and every ruler together.”
“Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.”
“Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.”
“Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,”
“And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.””
“Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,”
“I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.”
“I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”
“The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
