Psalms 11:2
For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
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Bend
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Ezekiel 17:7
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
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דָּרַךְ
dârak · daw-rak'
7 times translated as this KJV form63 total Strong's occurrences
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
Strong's KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Strong's first: Psalms 11:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:3
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kâphan · kaw-fan'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to bend
Strong's KJV usage: bend.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 17:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 17:7
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For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
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Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
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And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
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Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.
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Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
H1869
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
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There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
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bend
BEND, [Latin pando, pandare, to bend in; pando, pandere, to open; pandus, bent, crooked]
1. To strain, or to crook by straining; as, to bend a bow.
2. To crook; to make crooked; to curve; to inflect; as, to bend the arm.
3. To direct to a certain point; as, to bend our steps or course to a particular place.
4. To exert; to apply closely; to exercise laboriously; to intend or stretch; as, to bend the mind to study.
5. To prepare or put in order for use; to stretch or strain.
He hath bent his bow and made it ready. Psalms 7:1.
6. To incline; to be determined; that is, to stretch towards, or cause to tend; as, to be bent on mischief.
7. To subdue; to cause to yield; to make submissive; as, to bend a man to our will.
8. In seamanship, to fasten, as one rope to another or to an anchor; to fasten, as a sail to its yard or stay; to fasten, as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
9. To bend the brow, is to knit the brow; to scowl; to frown.
BEND, verb intransitive To be crooked; to crook, or be curving.
1. To incline; to lean or turn; as, a road bends to the west.
2. To jut over; as a bending cliff.
3. To resolve, or determine.[See Bent on.]
4. To bow or be submissive. Isaiah 60:1.
BEND, noun A curve; a crook; a turn in a road or river; flexure; incurvation.
1. In marine language, that part of a rope which is fastened to another or to an anchor. [See To bend No.8.]
2. Bends of a ship, are the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They are reckoned from the water, first, second or third bend They have the beams, knees, and foot hooks bolted to them, and are the chief strength of the ship's sides.
3. In heraldry, one of the nine honorable ordinaries, containing a third part of the field, when charged, and a fifth, when plain. It is made by two lines drawn across from the dexter chief, to the sinister base point. It sometimes is indented, ingrained, etc.
BEND, noun A band. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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