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Bow
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: Frieze of achaemenid archers; Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany
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Comments: Ashurbanipal's men with their spears, bows, arrows, and quivers, amid lion-hunts. From Room C, North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq, 645-635 BCE. British Museum, London.
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Comments: A bow made of straight, but knotty and poor-quality yew wood
From Easton: The bow was in use in early times both in war and in the chase (Genesis 21:20; Genesis 27:3; Genesis 48:22). The tribe of Benjamin were famous for the use of the bow (1 Chronicles 8:40; 1 Chronicles 12:2; 2 Chronicles 14:8; 2 Chronicles 17:17); so also were the Elamites (Isaiah 22:6) and the Lydians (Jeremiah 46:9). The Hebrew word commonly used for bow means properly to tread (1 Chronicles 5:18; 1 Chronicles 8:40), and hence it is concluded that the foot was employed in bending the bow. Bows of steel (correctly "copper") are mentioned (2 Samuel 22:35; Psalms 18:34).
The arrows were carried in a quiver (Genesis 27:3; Isaiah 22:6; Isaiah 49:2; Psalms 127:5). They were apparently sometimes shot with some burning material attached to them (Psalms 120:4).
The bow is a symbol of victory (Psalms 7:12). It denotes also falsehood, deceit (Psalms 64:3, Psalms 64:4; Hosea 7:16; Jeremiah 9:3).
"The use of the bow" in 2 Samuel 1:18 (A.V.) ought to be "the song of the bow," as in the Revised Version.
Verses:
- Genesis 27:3
- Genesis 48:22
- Genesis 49:24
- Joshua 24:12
- 1 Samuel 2:4
- 1 Samuel 18:4
- 2 Samuel 1:18
- 2 Samuel 1:22
- 2 Samuel 22:35
- 1 Kings 22:34
- 2 Kings 6:22
- 2 Kings 9:24
- 2 Kings 13:15
- 2 Kings 13:16
- 1 Chronicles 5:18
- 2 Chronicles 14:8
- 2 Chronicles 17:17
- 2 Chronicles 18:33
- 2 Chronicles 26:14
- Nehemiah 4:13
- Nehemiah 4:16
- Job 29:20
- Job 30:11
- Psalms 7:12
- Psalms 11:2
- Psalms 18:34
- Psalms 21:12
- Psalms 37:14
- Psalms 37:15
- Psalms 44:6
- Psalms 46:9
- Psalms 58:7
- Psalms 60:4
- Psalms 78:57
- Isaiah 5:28
- Isaiah 7:24
- Isaiah 13:18
- Isaiah 21:15
- Isaiah 22:3
- Isaiah 41:2
- Jeremiah 6:23
- Jeremiah 9:3
- Jeremiah 46:9
- Jeremiah 49:35
- Jeremiah 50:14
- Jeremiah 50:29
- Jeremiah 50:42
- Jeremiah 51:3
- Jeremiah 51:56
- Lamentations 2:4
- Lamentations 3:12
- Ezekiel 39:3
- Ezekiel 39:9
- Hosea 1:5
- Hosea 1:7
- Hosea 2:18
- Hosea 7:16
- Habakkuk 3:9
- Zechariah 9:10
- Zechariah 9:13
- Zechariah 10:4
- Revelation 6:2
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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/apo/b/bow.html. 2024.
