τοξότης
archer, bowman
Where this word appears
Every passage where τοξότης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 21:20 τοξότης And God was with the child, and he grew and lived in the wilderness, and became an archer.
- 1 Samuel 31:3 τοξότης And the battle prevails against Saul, and the shooters with arrows, even the archers find him, and he was wounded under the ribs.
- 1 Chronicles 10:3 τοξότης And the battle prevailed against Saul, and the archers hit him with bows and arrows, and they were wounded of the bows.
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 τοξότης And he said to Juda, Let us fortify these cities, and make walls, and towers, and gates, and bars: we shall prevail over the land, for as we have sought out the Lord our God, he has sought out us, and has given us rest round about, and prospered us.
- 2 Chronicles 17:17 τοξότης And out of Benjamin there was a mighty man of strength, even Eliada, and with him two hundred thousand archers and targeteers.
- 2 Chronicles 22:5 τοξότης And he walked in their counsels, and he went with Joram son of Achaab king of Israel to war against Azael king of Syria to Ramoth Galaad: and the archers struck Joram.
- 2 Chronicles 35:23 τοξότης And the archers shot at king Josias; and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am severely wounded.
- Amos 2:15 τοξότης and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.
About this word
About this word
τοξότης (toxótēs), “archer, bowman,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →