Bible Dictionary: Bowmen

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Plural of Bowman.

Strong's Hebrew

7198. qesheth -- a bow
... Word Origin perhaps from qush Definition a bow NASB Word Usage archers* (3), arrows
(1), bow (54), bowman* (1), bowmen (1), bows (13), bowshot* (1), rainbow (1 ...
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Library

The Dark was Lifting as Vergilius Entered the Field of Mars. ...
... "For a time, at least, Rome will be dear to him.". There were forty men riding
in the troop, all lancers, saving a few slingers and bowmen. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 11 the dark was.htm

Antichrist in Jeremiah
... Fearful will be the devastations his fury shall accomplish: "The whole city shall
flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/2 antichrist in jeremiah.htm

Oracles on the Scythians. (With Some Others: iv. 5-vi. 29. )
... From the noise of the horse and the bowmen, IV.29 All the land(217) is in flight,
They are into the caves, huddle in thickets,(218) Are up on the crags. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/2 oracles on the scythians.htm

The Eighteenth Theban Dynasty
... The light infantry was composed chiefly of bowmen"pidatu"the celebrated archers
of Egypt, whose long bows and arrows, used with deadly skill, speedily ...
/.../chapter iiithe eighteenth theban dynasty.htm

Songs of Deliverance
... But I should not wonder if since that first race of archers called sins has died
out, some of you have been much molested by another tribe of bowmen, who a ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 13 1867/songs of deliverance.htm

David the Shepherd Youth.
... Then with loud shouts the men of Israel rushed across the vale of oaks, shooting
their arrows as they ran, for they were good bowmen. ...
/.../anonymous/children of the old testament/david the shepherd youth.htm

The Poet.
... From the noise of the horse and the bowmen All the land is in flight, They are into
the caves, huddle in thickets, And are up on the crags.(59) Every town of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/lecture ii the poet.htm

The Holy Spirit's Intercession
... boy. Suppose it to be a time of war centuries back. Old English warfare
was then conducted by bowmen to a great extent. Here is ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 26 1880/the holy spirits intercession.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... But now a handful of hoplites from one of the towns of the continent, and that not
the most renowned for its prowess, without cavalry or bowmen, had rushed ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of 2.htm

The Second vision "On Earth"
... The whole city fleeth from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; They go into the
thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: Every city is forsaken, And not a man ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the second vision on earth.htm

Thesaurus

Bowmen (13 Occurrences)
...Bowmen (13 Occurrences). ... 1 Chronicles 8:40 And the sons of Ulam were men of war,
bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. ...
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Bowman (5 Occurrences)
... the use of the bow. The battle of Gilboa was clearly lost through the superior
skill of the Philistine bowmen. This seems to have ...
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Arrows (59 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 35:23 And the bowmen sent their arrows at King Josiah, and the king
said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded. (BBE). ...
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Assyria (124 Occurrences)
... the Old Testament. The army consisted of cavalry, infantry, bowmen and
slingers, as well as of a corps of charioteers. After the ...
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Warriors (75 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). 1 Chronicles 8:40 And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and
had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. ...
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Uplifted (26 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 50:29 Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen;
put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give ...
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Woodland (13 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 4:29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and
the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every ...
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Fowler (3 Occurrences)
... were confined in hidden cages so that their voices would call others of their kind
to the spot and they could be killed by arrows of concealed bowmen or the ...
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Tirhakah (2 Occurrences)
... In Sennacherib's inscriptions, however, the battle with "the king(s) of Mucuru
(Egypt) and the bowmen, chariots, and cavalry of Meruhha" (Meroe or Ethiopia ...
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Roads (34 Occurrences)
... Don't you know their evidences, (See RSV). Job 30:13 They have made waste my roads,
with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me; (BBE). ...
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Bible Concordance

Bowmen (13 Occurrences)

2 Kings 8:29 So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.
(BBE)

1 Chronicles 8:40 And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.
(BBE RSV)

1 Chronicles 12:2 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 brethren of Benjamin.
(See RSV)

2 Chronicles 22:5 Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 35:23 And the bowmen sent their arrows at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded.
(BBE)

Job 16:13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
(BBE)

Job 30:13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
(BBE)

Psalms 78:9 The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
(DBY)

Isaiah 21:17 And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)

Jeremiah 16:16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 50:14 Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 50:29 Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Bowmen

Related Terms

Bowman (5 Occurrences)

Arrows (59 Occurrences)

Assyria (124 Occurrences)

Warriors (75 Occurrences)

Uplifted (26 Occurrences)

Woodland (13 Occurrences)

Fowler (3 Occurrences)

Tirhakah (2 Occurrences)

Roads (34 Occurrences)