Words

τόξον G5115

Home gloss

bow

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

bow

Note

The archer's bow (Rev 6:2), as קֶשֶׁת; the Greek does not say "rainbow" (ἶρις, Rev 4:3; 10:1)

Occurrences (5)

Genesis 9 (Septuagint)

• 9:13 my bow I am setting in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the land.
• 9:14 And it shall be, when I cloud clouds upon the land, my bow shall be seen in the cloud,
• 9:16 And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will see to remember a covenant of age between me and between every living soul in all flesh that is upon the land."

Genesis 21 (Septuagint)

• 21:16 Now, having gone away, she sat over against him farther off, as it were a bow's throw; for she said, "By no means let me see the death of my little child." And she sat over against him from afar; but the little child, having shouted aloud, wept.

Genesis 27 (Septuagint)

• 27:3 Now then, take the vessel, both the quiver and the bow, and go out into the plain, and hunt game for me;