τόξον
bow
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5115 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun τοξον centers on the idea of “bow.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Revelation (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is Revelation 6:2. It shares a root with τικτω, τειχος and τεχνη. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5115 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Johannine 1 verse · 100%
- Revelation 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bow 1×
- American Standard Version: Bow 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bow 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bow 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5115 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5115 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5115 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5115 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a bow
Word origin
Derived from τικτω (tíktō) (G5088) — to produce.
From the base of G5088 ; a bow (apparently as the simplest fabric): - bow.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5115, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- τειχος teîchos G5038 city wall
- τεχνη téchnē G5078 craft
- τοκος tókos G5110 usury
- τυγχανω tynchánō G5177 to happen
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τοξον appears 71 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 67 verses in 18 books.
- 71
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 67
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 9:13 τόξον
- Joshua 24:12 τόξον
- 1 Samuel 2:4 τόξον
- 2 Samuel 1:22 τόξον
- 1 Kings 22:34 τόξον
- 2 Kings 6:22 τόξον
- 1 Chronicles 5:18 τόξον
- 2 Chronicles 18:33 τόξον
- Ezra 14:7 τόξον
- Job 20:24 τόξον
- Psalms 7:13 τόξον
- Isaiah 5:28 τόξον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5115) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 67. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 9:13 τόξον I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:14 τόξον It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
- Genesis 9:16 τόξον The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 21:16 τόξον She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
- Genesis 27:3 τόξον Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
- Genesis 48:22 τόξον Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
- Genesis 49:24 τόξον But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
- Joshua 24:12 τόξον I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
- 1 Samuel 2:4 τόξον The bows of the mighty men are broken; Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
- 2 Samuel 1:22 τόξον From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan didn't turn back, The sword of Saul didn't return empty.
- 2 Samuel 22:35 τόξον He teaches my hands to war, So that my arms do bend a bow of brass.
- 1 Kings 22:34 τόξον A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am severely wounded.
- 2 Kings 6:22 τόξον He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
- 2 Kings 9:24 τόξον Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
- 2 Kings 13:15 τόξον Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took to him bow and arrows.
- 2 Kings 13:16 τόξον He said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow; and he put his hand [on it]. Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands.
- 2 Kings 13:18 τόξον He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, Smite on the ground; and he struck thrice, and stayed.
- 1 Chronicles 5:18 τόξον The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.
- 1 Chronicles 8:40 τόξον The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
- 1 Chronicles 10:3 τόξον The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
- 1 Chronicles 12:2 τόξον They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.
- 2 Chronicles 18:33 τόξον A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.
- 2 Chronicles 26:14 τόξον Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
- Ezra 14:7 τόξον
- Ezra 14:10 τόξον
- Job 20:24 τόξον He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.
- Job 29:20 τόξον My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'
- Job 39:23 τόξον The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.
- Job 41:20 τόξον Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
- Psalms 7:13 τόξον He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
- Psalms 10:2 τόξον In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak; They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
- Psalms 17:35 τόξον
- Psalms 36:14 τόξον
- Psalms 36:15 τόξον
- Psalms 43:7 τόξον
- Psalms 45:10 τόξον Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
- Psalms 57:8 τόξον Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
- Psalms 59:6 τόξον They return at evening, howling like dogs, And prowl around the city.
- Psalms 63:4 τόξον So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
- Psalms 75:4 τόξον I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast;" To the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.
- Psalms 77:9 τόξον Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.
- Psalms 77:57 τόξον
- Isaiah 5:28 τόξον Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.
- Isaiah 41:2 τόξον Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
- Jeremiah 4:29 τόξον Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
- Jeremiah 6:23 τόξον They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.
- Jeremiah 9:2 τόξον Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
- Jeremiah 25:15 τόξον For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
- Jeremiah 26:9 τόξον Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 27:14 τόξον Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5115) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
