Psalms 7:12
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
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Bent
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Zechariah 9:13
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
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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 7:12Strong's last: Zechariah 9:13
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tâlâʼ · taw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to suspend; figuratively (through hesitation) to be uncertain; by implication (of mental dependence) to habituate
Strong's KJV usage: be bent, hang (in doubt).
Strong's first: Hosea 11:7Strong's last: Hosea 11:7
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H1869
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
H1869
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
H1869
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
H1869
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
H1869
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
H1869
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
H8511
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
H1869
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
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bent
BENT, participle passive Strained; incurvated; made crooked; inclined; subdued.
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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