Genesis 9:13
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
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Bow
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Revelation 6:2
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
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11 verses
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קֶשֶׁת
qesheth · keh'-sheth
55 times translated as this KJV form71 total Strong's occurrences
a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
Strong's KJV usage: × arch(-er), arrow, bow(-man, -shot).
Strong's first: Genesis 9:13Strong's last: Zechariah 10:4
Open full H7198 profile →כָּרַע
kâraʻ · kaw-rah'
4 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate
Strong's KJV usage: bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite (stoop) down, subdue, × very.
Strong's first: Job 39:3Strong's last: Isaiah 45:23
Open full H3766 profile →κάμπτω
kámptō · kamp'-to
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to bend
Strong's KJV usage: :--bow.
Strong's first: Romans 14:11Strong's last: Philippians 2:10
Open full G2578 profile →שָׁחָה
shâchâh · shaw-khaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
Strong's KJV usage: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 23:7Strong's last: 2 Kings 17:35
Open full H7812 profile →נָטָה
nâṭâh · naw-taw'
2 times translated as this KJV form214 total Strong's occurrences
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 144:5Strong's last: Proverbs 5:1
Open full H5186 profile →שָׁחַח
shâchach · shaw-khakh'
2 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to sink or depress (reflexive or causative)
Strong's KJV usage: bend, bow (down), bring (cast) down, couch, humble self, be (bring) low, stoop.
Strong's first: Proverbs 14:19Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:6
Open full H7817 profile →τόξον
tóxon · tox'-on
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a bow (apparently as the simplest fabric)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bow.
Strong's first: Revelation 6:2Strong's last: Revelation 6:2
Open full G5115 profile →כָּפַף
kâphaph · kaw-faf'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to curve
Strong's KJV usage: bow down (self).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Micah 6:6Strong's last: Micah 6:6
Open full H3721 profile →עָוַת
ʻâvath · aw-vath'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to wrest
Strong's KJV usage: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 12:3Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 12:3
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no direct Strong's tag
In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
H7198
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
H7198
And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
H7198
And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
H7198
And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
H7198
And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.
H7812
With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
no direct Strong's tag
LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
H7198
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
H7198
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
H7198
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
H7198
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
H7198
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
H7198
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
no direct Strong's tag
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
H3766
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
H7198
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
H7198
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.
H7198
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
H3766
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
no direct Strong's tag
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
H7198
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.
H7198
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
H7198
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
no direct Strong's tag
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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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bow
BOW, verb transitive
1. To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines.
2. To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head.
3. To bend or incline towards, in condescension.
BOW down thine ear to the poor. Eccles.
4. To depress; to crush; to subdue.
His heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave.
He bows the nations to his will.
BOW, verb intransitive To bend; to curve; to be inflected; to bend, in token of reverence, respect or civility; often with down.
This is the idol to which the world bows.
1. To stoop; to fall upon the knees.
The people bowed upon their knees.
2. To sink under pressure.
They stoop; they bow down together. Isaiah.
BOW, noun An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.
BOW, noun [See bow to bend.] An instrument of war, and hunting, made of wood, or other elastic matter, with a string fastened to each end. The bow being bent by drawing the string, and suddenly returning to its natural state by its elastic force, throws an arrow to a great distance, and with force sufficient to kill an animal. It is of two kinds, the long-bow, and the cross-bow, arbalest or arbalest. The use of the bow is called archery.
1. Any thing bent, or in form of a curve; the rainbow; the doubling of a string in a knot; the part of a yoke which embraces the neck; etc.
2. A small machine, formed with a stick and hairs, which being drawn over the strings of an instrument of music, causes it to sound.
3. A beam of wood or brass, with three long screws that direct a lathe of wood or steel to any arch; used in forming drafts of ships, and projections of the sphere, or wherever it is necessary to draw large arches.
4. An instrument for taking the sun's altitude at sea, consisting of a large arch of ninety degrees graduated, a shank or staff, a side-vane, a sight-vane, and a horizon-vane; now disused.
5. An instrument in use among smiths for turning a drill; with turners, for turning wood; with hatters, for breaking fur and wool.
6. Bows of a saddle, are the two pieces of wood laid archwise to receive the upper part of a horse's back, to give the saddle its due form, and to keep it tight.
7. bow of a ship, is the rounding part of her side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow. A narrow bow is called a lean bow; a broad one, a bold or bluff bow
On the bow in navigation, is an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees, comprehended between some distant object, and that point of the compass which is right ahead.
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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