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Credit: LBM1948

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Comments: Frieze of achaemenid archers; Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany

 

Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)

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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.

 

Credit: Richard Keatinge at English Wikipedia

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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
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​b/bow.html. 2024.
 
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