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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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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H3766
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
H7198
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
H7198
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
no direct Strong's tag
<<A Prayer of David.>> Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
no direct Strong's tag
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
H5186
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
H5186
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
H7817
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
no direct Strong's tag
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
H5791
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
no direct Strong's tag
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
H7198
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
H7198
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
H3766
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
no direct Strong's tag
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
no direct Strong's tag
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
no direct Strong's tag
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
no direct Strong's tag
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
no direct Strong's tag
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
no direct Strong's tag
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
H7198
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
H7198
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
H7198
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.
H7198
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.
H7198
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
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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