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Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Bows
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The Topic Concordance
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Torrey Topical Textbook
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Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
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American Tract Society
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Bow and Arrow
Hastings' BibleDictionary
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• Battle Bow
King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Bow in the Cloud
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• O Kind Creator, Bow Thine Ear
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Bow, Bowed
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• Bow, Bend
Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Sea Bow
• Bowing
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Bow-Leg
• Bowness-On-Windermere
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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• Bow
• Bow in the Cloud
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Bow
• Bow (2)
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Broke, Sir Philip Bowes Vere
• Ulysses' Bow
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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Lexicons
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The expression, "to break the bow," so frequent in Scripture, signifies to destroy the power of a people, because the principal offensive weapon, of armies, was anciently the bow. "A deceitful bow" in one that, from some defect, either in bending or the string, carries the arrow wide of the mark, however well aimed. See ARMS .