Psalms 58:7
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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Bendeth
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Jeremiah 51:3
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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דָּרַךְ
dârak · daw-rak'
2 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 58:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:3
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Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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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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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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