קֶשֶׁת qesheth

Hebrew · Strong's H7198 · pronounced keh'-sheth · used 76 times in 74 verses

Meaning

a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris

In the King James Version: [idiom] arch(-er), [phrase] arrow, bow(-man, -shot).

Derivation: from H7185 (קָשָׁה) in the original sense (of H6983 (קוֹשׁ)) of bending;

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Where it is used

Lamentations 2:4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
Lamentations 3:12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Ezekiel 1:28 The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
Ezekiel 39:3 Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
Ezekiel 39:9 Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
Hosea 1:5 And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”
Hosea 1:7 Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
Hosea 2:18 On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
Hosea 7:16 They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
Amos 2:15 The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.
Habakkuk 3:9 You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.
Zechariah 9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
Zechariah 9:13 For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
Zechariah 10:4 The cornerstone will come from Judah, the tent peg from him, as well as the battle bow and every ruler together.