קַשָּׁת
archer
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7199 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 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.
קשת (qashshâth) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “archer.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Genesis dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Genesis 21:20. 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 H7199 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 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: not separately translated
- Berean Standard Bible: Archer 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: A 1×, Bowman 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Does not render H7199 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7199 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7199 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- bowman, archer
Word origin
n.m. bowman (si vera l.);—וַיְהִי רֹבֶה ק׳ Gn 21:20 and he became, growing up, a bowman; but ר׳ then superfluous (om. 𝔊), after וַיִּגְדָּ֑ל v a; Kn Di רֹבֵה קָ֑שֶׁת (= רֹמֵה ק׳ Je 4:29, which Ball reads here), cf. Holz Gunk.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קשת (qesheth) (H7198) — bow.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קְשַׁת
- (v. קְשַׁט) to shoot. Targ. Ez. XXI, 26. Targ. Y. II, Ex. XV, 4; a. e.
- same. Targ. Is. XXXVII, 33 יַקְשִׁית ed. Wil. (ed. Lag. יִקְשַׁת); Targ. II Kings XIX, 32.
- to be shot forth. Targ. Y. II, Ex. XIX, 13 (v. קְשַׁט).
קֶשֶׁת
- c. (b. h.; preced.) bow; rainbow. Erub. 55ᵃ עיר העשויה כק׳ a town built in the shape of a bow; ib. עשויה כמין ק׳. Ber. 59ᵃ הרואה את הק׳ בענן he who sees a rainbow in the clouds. Ḥag. 16ᵃ. Gen. R. s. 35; a. fr.—Pl. קְשָתוֹת. Lam. R. introd. (R. Joḥ. 1) (ref. to Is. XXII, 3) שהיו מתירין גידי קַשְׁתּוֹתָם וכ׳ they loosened the strings of their bows and tied them with them; Yalk. Is. 289. Sifré Deut. 18 עקרבים כק׳ scorpions as large as bows; Yalk. ib. 803; a. e.—Trnsf. membrum virile, potentia virilis. Sot. 36ᵇ; Y. Hor. II, 46ᵈ; a. e. e.g. Isaiah 22:3
קֶשֶׁת ²
- 1. bow; rainbow. Targ. Is. XXI, 15. Targ. Gen. XXI, 16. Ib. IX, 13; a. fr.—Pl. קַשְׁתִּין, קַשְׁתָּן, קַשְׁתָּתָא, קַשְׁוָותָא. Targ. Is. VII, 24. Targ. II Chr. XXVI, 14. Targ. I Sam. II, 4 קַשְׁתַּת constr. (followed by ד־). Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 20. Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 14, sq.; a. e.
- 2. the curved side of the stomach, opp. to יִתְרָא. Ḥull. 50ᵃ דאק׳ the fat covering the curved &c.
קַשָּׁת
- preced.) archer; esp. ק׳ (מזל) Sagittarius, a sign of the Zodiac. Gen. R. s. 98. Pesik. R. s. 20; Yalk. Ex. 418; a. e.—Pl. קַשָּׁתִים, קַשָּׁתִין. Lam. R. to II, 2, a. e., v. קַשָּׁט.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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