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Strong's #7198 - קֶשֶׁת
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- bow
- bow (for hunting, battle)
- bowmen, archers
- bow (figuratively of might)
- rainbow
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1435) sq (קסה QSh) AC: Gather CO: Stalk AB: ?: The pictograph q is a picture of the sun at the horizon and the gathering of the light, the s is a picture of the teeth representing pressure. Combined these mean "bring together and pressed". Once the grain stalks are harvested from the field, it is gathered into bundles and secured with a cord in the middle.
A) sq (קסה QSh) AC: ? CO: Stubble AB: ?: The stiff part of the stalk that remains in the ground. The stiffness a branch for making bows or snares.
Nm) sq (קסה QSh) - Stubble: KJV (16): stubble - Strongs: H7179 (קַשׁ)
Nf2) tsq (קסהת QShT) - Bow: Made from a stiff branch to shoot arrows. KJV (77): bow - Strongs: H7198 (קֶשֶׁת)
fm) isq (קסהי QShY) - Stubbornness: As stiff. KJV (1): stubbornness - Strongs: H7190 (קְשִׁי)
B) ssq (קסהסה QShSh) AC: Gather CO: Stalk AB: ?: The stalks of the grain harvested are gathered together and tied into tight bundles. The stiffness of the stalks or a branch.
V) ssq (קסהסה QShSh) - Gather: KJV (8): (vf: Paal) gather - Strongs: H7197 (קָשַׁשׁ)
Nm) ssq (קסהסה QShSh) - Chaff: [df: ssx] KJV (2): chaff - Strongs: H2842 (חֲשַׁשׁ)
E) asq (קסהא QShA) AC: ? CO: Cucumber AB: ?: A hard vegetable.
df) afsq (קסהוא QShWA) - Cucumber: A hard vegetable. KJV (1): cucumber - Strongs: H7180 (קִשֻּׁאָה)
hf1) easqm (מקסהאה MQShAH) - Cucumber: A hard vegetable. [df: hsqm] KJV (1): cucumber - Strongs: H4750 (מִקְשָׁה)
H) esq (קסהה QShH) AC: ? CO: Hard AB: ?: The stiffness of the stubble or branch.
V) esq (קסהה QShH) - Hard: KJV (28): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Piel) harden, hard, grievous - Strongs: H7185 (קָשָׁה)
Nm) esq (קסהה QShH) - Hard: KJV (36): hard, roughly, cruel, grievous, sore, churlish, hardhearted, heavy - Strongs: H7186 (קָשֶׁה)
hm) esqm (מקסהה MQShH) - Hairdo: A well dressed hair. [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (1): hair - Strongs: H4748 (מִקְשֶׁה)
hf1) esqm (מקסהה MQShH) - Work: A metal that is formed by being beaten by a hammer. [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (10): beaten, piece, upright - Strongs: H4749 (מִקְשָׁה)
J) sfq (קוסה QWSh) AC: Gather CO: Snare AB: ?: A snare for trapping animals is constructed of a bent branch (as a spring) tied to a trap.
V) sfq (קוסה QWSh) - Snare: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) snare - Strongs: H6983 (קוּשׁ)
L) sqi (יקסה YQSh) AC: Gather CO: Snare AB: ?: A snare for trapping animals is constructed of a bent branch (as a spring) tied to a trap.
V) sqi (יקסה YQSh) - Snare: KJV (8): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Pual, Participle) snare - Strongs: H3369 (יָקַשׁ)
am) sqfm (מוקסה MWQSh) - Snare: KJV (27): snare, gin, trap, ensnared - Strongs: H4170 (מֹקֵשׁ)
cm) sfqi (יקוסה YQWSh) - Snarer: KJV (1): fowler - Strongs: H3352 (יָקוֹשׁ)
dm) sfqi (יקוסה YQWSh) - Snare: KJV (3): fowler, snare - Strongs: H3353 (יָקוּשׁ)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 bow:
a. for hunting Genesis 27:3 (J; + תְּלְי)
b. battle: + (or "") חֶרֶב Genesis 48:22; Joshua 24:12 (both E), Hosea 1:7; Hosea 2:20; 1 Samuel 18:4 (+ חְַגֹרוֺ), 2 Samuel 1:22; 2 Kings 6:22; Isaiah 41:2; Nehemiah 4:7 (+ רָמְחֵיהֶם), Zechariah 9:13 (figurative of Judah as ׳י s bow), Psalm 37:15 (figurative) Psalm 44:7 (+ or "" חֶרֶב also below);+ (or "") חִצִּים Isaiah 7:24; 2 Kings 13:15 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 39:3,9; 1 Chronicles 12:2 a; compare ׳רִשְׁפֵי ק Psalm 76:4 = arrow (+ מָנֵן וְחֶרֶב) so ׳בֶּן ק Job 41:20 (compare Lamentations 3:13; Job 5:7); + חֲנִית Psalm 46:10, + כִּידוֺן Jeremiah 6:23; Jeremiah 50:42; + varius weapons Nehemiah 4:10; 2 Chronicles 26:14; alone Isaiah 13:18 (context corrupt), Isaiah 22:3; Jeremiah 51:56; Habakkuk 3:9 (of ׳י as warrior); מִלְחָמָה׳ק Zechariah 9:10; Zechariah 10:4; in simile רְמִיָּה׳כְּק like a bow of deception Hosea 7:16; Psalm 78:57 (i.e. one that misses its aim; al. slack bow).
c. ׳ק collective = bow (-men), archers Isaiah 21:17.
d. phrases are:׳הַמּרִים אֲנָשִׁים בַּקּ 1 Samuel 31:3 archers, bowmen (but dubious; Dr Kit Löhr translates, ׳הַמּ׳א; We Bu strike out ׳א as "" 1 Chronicles 10:3; HPS Now strike out ׳בַּקּ׳א), ׳הַמּוֺרִים בַּקּ 1 Chronicles 10:3; ׳מְטַחֲוֵי ק Genesis 21:16 (see [טָתָה], ׳רמֵה ק Jeremiah 4:29, compare perhaps Genesis 21:21 see קִשָּׁת, "" ׳נשְׁקֵי ק (see II.נָשַׁק) 1 Chronicles 12:2 b 2 Chronicles 17:17, ׳רוֺמֵי ק׳נוֺ Psalm 78:9; ׳תֹּפֵשׁ הַקּ Amos 2:15 one grasping the bow, (see Jeremiah 46:9 below) see also ׳מִלֵּא יָדוֺ בַקּ 2 Kings 9:24, ׳הַרְכֵּב יָֽדְךָ עַלהַֿקּ 2 Kings 13:16; ׳דָּרַח ק bend (literally tread) the bow, Isaiah 5:28 (participle passive), Isaiah 21:15 ( id.; "" חֶרֶב) Jeremiah 50:14,29; Jeremiah 51:3; 1 Chronicles 5:18; 1 Chronicles 8:40; 2 Chronicles 14:7; Psalm 37:14 ("" חֶרֶב), in figure Psalm 11:2 ("" חֵץ), and, of God, Lamentations 2:4; Lamentations 3:12; Psalm 7:13 ("" הֶרֶב); ׳תֹּפְשֵׂי דֹּרְכֵי ק Jeremiah 46:9; compare(figurative) וַיַּדְרְכוֺ אֶתלְֿשׁוֺנָם קַשְׁתָּם Jeremiah 9:2; also נְחוּשָׁה וְנִחֲתָה׳ק Psalm 18:35 = 2 Samuel 22:35 (readוְנִחֲתָה for וְנִחַת) ׳מָשַׁח בַּקּ draw the bow 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33; Isaiah 66:19.
e. bow (passing over into) figurative of might Genesis 49:24 (poem), 1 Samuel 2:4; Hosea 1:5; Jeremiah 49:35; Job 29:20 (compare Psalm 37:15,
b. above) feminineנְחוּשָׁה ׳ק fig of divine judgment Job 20:24 ("" נֵשֶׁק בַּרְזֶל)
2 rainbow: אֲשַׁר יִהְיֶה בֶעָנָן בְּיוֺם הַנֶּשֶׁם׳כְּמַרְאֵה הַקּ Ezekiel 1:28; Genesis 9:13,14,16 (P). — קָ֑שֶׁה וַיּאֹמֶר לְלַמֵּד בְּנֵייְֿהוּדָה 2 Samuel 1:18 is corrupt; ᵐ5 al. omits; We Now think misplaced gloss on 2 Samuel 1:6; see further HPS.
קֶשֶׁת pl. קְשָׁתוֹת, constr. קַשְׁתוֹת, comm. (m. 2 Samuel 1:22 f. Psalms 18:35).
(1) a bow (from the root קוֹשׁ, of the form שַׁחַת, נַחַת, סֹלֶת; although ת servile afterwards becomes a radical letter, compare Aram. ܙܶܬܘܰܫܶܛ to shoot, see Lehrg. p. 439, 474. Arabic قَوْسُ bow)
(a) for shooting arrows, Genesis 21:16; Isaiah 13:18; Job 20:24, and frequently. דָּרַךְ קֶשֶׁת to draw a bow, see דָּרַךְ. בֶּן־קֶשֶׁת the son of a bow, i.e. an arrow, Job 41:20. Meton. bow is used
(α) for archers, אַנְשֵׁי קֶשֶׁת Isaiah 21:17, 22:3 Psalms 78:57, where קֶשֶׁת רְמִיָּה are deceitful archers (who deceive by a simulated flight). Compare קָצִיר used for reapers.
(β) the song of the bow, 2 Samuel 1:18, i.e. David’s elegy, composed on Saul and Jonathan, in which mention is made of the bow, verse 22 2 Samuel 1:22 on this manner of inscribing poems and books, used by the orientals, see Jones, on Asiatic Poetry, p. 269; my Comment. on Isaiah 22:1. In other places bow is used metaph. for strength and power; hence to break any one’s bow, i.e. to break his strength, to overturn his power, Hosea 1:5; Jeremiah 49:35; Job 29:20, “my bow is strengthened in my hand,” i.e. my strength increases; Genesis 49:24.
(b) the heavenly bow, the rainbow, Gr. τόξον, Genesis 9:13, seq.; Ezekiel 1:28. Hence denom.