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Arrow

See ARMS. Divination with arrows was a method of presaging future events, practised by the ancients. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H2671, H2678, G0956, G1002, H2687, H7565
Hebrew
חֵץ · chêts
Greek
βέλος · belos

Strong’s and original-language information

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חֵץ

H2671
Transliteration
chêts
Pronunciation
khayts
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
53

Glosses

arrow, [phrase] archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.

Lexicon definition

properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow

by implication, a wound

figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt

the shaft of aspear

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

βέλος

G0956
Transliteration
belos
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-N
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

arrow, dart

Lexicon definition

βέλος, -εος, τό (βάλλω), [in LXX chiefly for חֵץ ;] a missile, a dart: Eph.6:16.† (AS)

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

βολίς

G1002
Transliteration
bolis
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-F
Indexed occurrences
0

Glosses

arrow, dart

Lexicon definition

βολίς, -ίδος, ἡ (βάλλω), [in LXX for חֵץ, יָרָה, etc. ;] a dart, javelin: Heb.12:20, Rec. (LXX).† (AS)

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Βολίς

G1002
Transliteration
bolís
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
0

Glosses

dart

Lexicon definition

a missile weapon, dart, javelin, He. 12.20; also a plummet, lead for sounding. L.G.

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

חָצָץ

H2687
Transliteration
châtsâts
Pronunciation
khaw-tsawts'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

arrow, gravel (stone).

Lexicon definition

properly, something cutting

hence, gravel (as grit)

an arrow

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

רֶשֶׁף

H7565
Transliteration
resheph
Pronunciation
reh'-shef
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
7

Glosses

arrow, (burning) coal, burning heat, [phrase] spark, hot thunderbolt.

Lexicon definition

a live coal

by analogy lightning

figuratively, an arrow, (as flashing through the air)

specifically, fever

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

חֵץ

H2671
Transliteration
chêts
Pronunciation
khayts
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
53

Glosses

[phrase] archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.

Lexicon definition

properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow

by implication, a wound

figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt

the shaft of aspear

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

יָרָה

H3384
Transliteration
yârâh
Pronunciation
yaw-raw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
78

Glosses

([phrase]) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.

Lexicon definition

properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain)

transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot)

figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Arrows

At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zech. 9:14). They were used in war as well as in the chase (Gen. 27:3; 49:23). They were also used in divination (Ezek. 21:21). The word is frequently employed as a symbol of calamity or disease inflicted by God (Job 6:4; 34:6; Ps. 38:2; Deut. 32:23. Comp. Ezek. 5:16), or of some sudden danger (Ps. 91:5), or bitter words (Ps. 64:3), or false testimony (Prov. 25:18).

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

ARROW

See ARMS. Divination with arrows was a method of presaging future events, practised by the ancients. Ezekiel, xxi, 21, informs us, that Nebuchadnezzar, putting himself at the head of his armies, to march against Zedekiah, king of the Jews, and against the king of the Ammonites, stood at the parting of two ways, to mingle his arrows together in a quiver, in order to divine from thence which way he should march. Jerom, Theodoret, and the modern commentators after them, believe that this prince took several arrows, and upon each of them wrote the name of the king, town, or province, which he was to attack: for example, upon one, Jerusalem; upon another, Rabbah, the capital of the Ammonites; and upon another, Egypt, &c. After having put these into a quiver, he shook them together, and then drew them out; and the arrow which was drawn was thought to declare the will of the gods to attack first that city, province, or kingdom, with whose name it was inscribed.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Arrow

Indexed occurrences: 20

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Strong's Concordance

Arrows

Indexed occurrences: 43

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All Scripture references88 references

Genesis 3

Genesis 9:8Genesis 49:23Genesis 49:24

Exodus 1

Exodus 19:13

Numbers 1

Numbers 24:8

Deuteronomy 2

Deuteronomy 32:23Deuteronomy 32:42

1 Samuel 6

1 Samuel 20:201 Samuel 20:211 Samuel 20:221 Samuel 20:361 Samuel 20:371 Samuel 20:38

2 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 22:15

1 Kings 1

1 Kings 19:12

2 Kings 6

2 Kings 9:242 Kings 13:152 Kings 13:172 Kings 13:182 Kings 19:322 Kings 21:6

1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 12:2

2 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 26:15

Ezra 1

Ezra 2:69

Job 7

Job 6:4Job 16:13Job 20:24Job 34:6Job 39:23Job 41:26Job 41:28

Psalms 25

Psalms 7:13Psalms 7:14Psalms 11:2Psalms 18:14Psalms 18:15Psalms 38:2Psalms 38:3Psalms 45:5Psalms 45:6Psalms 57:4Psalms 57:5Psalms 58:7Psalms 58:8Psalms 64:3Psalms 64:4Psalms 64:7Psalms 64:8Psalms 76:3Psalms 77:17Psalms 77:18Psalms 78:57Psalms 91:5Psalms 120:4Psalms 127:4Psalms 144:6

Proverbs 3

Proverbs 7:23Proverbs 25:18Proverbs 26:18

Isaiah 4

Isaiah 5:28Isaiah 7:24Isaiah 37:33Isaiah 49:2

Jeremiah 5

Jeremiah 9:7Jeremiah 9:8Jeremiah 50:9Jeremiah 50:14Jeremiah 51:11

Lamentations 2

Lamentations 3:12Lamentations 3:13

Ezekiel 6

Ezekiel 1:28Ezekiel 5:16Ezekiel 21:21Ezekiel 21:26Ezekiel 39:3Ezekiel 39:9

Hosea 1

Hosea 1:5

Amos 1

Amos 4:11

Micah 1

Micah 3:6

Habakkuk 2

Habakkuk 3:9Habakkuk 3:11

Zechariah 1

Zechariah 9:14

Acts 3

Acts 1:26Acts 8:9Acts 19:13

Ephesians 1

Ephesians 6:16

Revelation 2

Revelation 4:3Revelation 6:2

Topical Bible

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Ancient Context1 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Jehu Was Anointed King, And Slew Both Joram And Ahaziah; As Also What He Did For The Punishment Of The Wicked.

Antiquities Book 9, Chapter 6

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ARROW

Nave’s Topical Bible references for ARROW.

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Arrows

At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zech. 9:14). They were used in war as well as in the chase (Gen. 27:3; 49:23). They were also used in divination (Ezek. 21:21). The word is frequently employed as a symbol of calamity or disease inflicted by God (Job 6:4; 34:6; Ps. 38:2; Deut. 32:23. Comp. Ezek. 5:16), or of some sudden danger (Ps. 91:5), or bitter words (Ps. 64:3), or false testimony (Prov. 25:18).

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Artillery

1 Sam. 20:40, (Heb. keli, meaning "apparatus;" here meaning collectively any missile weapons, as arrows and lances. In Revised Version, "weapons"). This word is derived from the Latin artillaria = equipment of war.

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Daric

In the Revised Version of 1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Neh. 7:70-72, where the Authorized Version has "dram." It is the rendering of the Hebrew darkemon and the Greek dareikos. It was a gold coin, bearing the figure of a Persian King with his crown and armed with bow and arrow. It was current among the Jews after their return from Babylon, i.e., while under the Persian domination. It weighed about 128 grains troy, and was of the value of about one guinea or rather more of our money. It is the first coin mentioned in Scripture, and is the oldest that history makes known to us.

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Dart

An instrument of war; a light spear. "Fiery darts" (Eph. 6:16) are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible material. Arrows are compared to lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 120:4).

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Divination

Of false prophets (Deut. 18:10, 14; Micah 3:6, 7, 11), of necromancers (1 Sam. 28:8), of the Philistine priests and diviners (1 Sam. 6:2), of Balaam (Josh. 13:22). Three kinds of divination are mentioned in Ezek. 21:21, by arrows, consulting with images (the teraphim), and by examining the entrails of animals sacrificed. The practice of this art seems to have been encouraged in ancient Egypt. Diviners also abounded among the aborigines of Canaan and the Philistines (Isa. 2:6; 1 Sam. 28). At a later period multitudes of magicians poured from Chaldea and Arabia into the land of Israel, and pursued their occupations (Isa. 8:19; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chr. 33:6). This superstition widely spread, and in the time of the apostles there were "vagabond Jews, exorcists" (Acts 19:13), and men like Simon Magus (Acts 8:9), Bar-jesus (13:6, 8), and other jugglers and impostors (19:19; 2 Tim. 3:13). Every species and degree of this superstition was strictly forbidden by the law of Moses (Ex. 22:18; Lev. 19:26, 31; 20:27; Deut. 18:10, 11). But beyond these various forms of superstition, there are instances of divination on record in the Scriptures by which God was pleased to make known his will. (1.) There was divination by lot, by which, when resorted to in matters of moment, and with solemnity, God intimated his will (Josh. 7:13). The land of Canaan was divided by lot (Num. 26:55, 56); Achan's guilt was detected (Josh. 7:16-19), Saul was elected king (1 Sam. 10:20, 21), and Matthias chosen to the apostleship, by the solem lot (Acts 1:26). It was thus also that the scape-goat was determined (Lev. 16:8-10). (2.) There was divination by dreams (Gen. 20:6; Deut. 13:1, 3; Judg. 7:13, 15; Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13, 19, 22). This is illustrated in the history of Joseph (Gen. 41:25-32) and of Daniel (2:27; 4:19-28). (3.) By divine appointment there was also divination by the Urim and Thummim (Num. 27:21), and by the ephod. (4.) God was pleased sometimes to vouch-safe direct vocal communications to men (Deut. 34:10; Ex. 3:4; 4:3; Deut. 4:14, 15; 1 Kings 19:12). He also communed with men from above the mercy-seat (Ex. 25:22), and at the door of the tabernacle (Ex. 29:42, 43). (5.) Through his prophets God revealed himself, and gave intimations of his will (2 Kings 13:17; Jer. 51:63, 64).

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Engines

(1.) Heb. hishalon i.e., "invention" (as in Eccl. 7:29) contrivances indicating ingenuity. In 2 Chr. 26:15 it refers to inventions for the purpose of propelling missiles from the walls of a town, such as stones (the Roman balista) and arrows (the catapulta). (2.) Heb. mechi kobollo, i.e., the beating of that which is in front a battering-ram (Ezek. 26:9), the use of which was common among the Egyptians and the Assyrians. Such an engine is mentioned in the reign of David (2 Sam. 20:15).

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Firebrand

Isa. 7:4, Amos 4:11, Zech. 3:2, denotes the burnt end of a stick (Heb. ud); in Judg. 15:4, a lamp or torch, a flambeau (Heb. lappid); in Prov. 26:18 (comp. Eph. 6:16), burning darts or arrows (Heb. zikkim).

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Quiver

The sheath for arrows. The Hebrew word (aspah) thus commonly rendered is found in Job 39:23; Ps. 127:5; Isa. 22:6; 49:2; Jer. 5:16; Lam. 3:13. In Gen. 27:3 this word is the rendering of the Hebrew teli, which is supposed rather to mean a suspended weapon, literally "that which hangs from one", i.e., is suspended from the shoulder or girdle.

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