(n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.BOWSHOT

bo'-shot: Found only in Genesis 21:16 in the account of Hagar and her child: "And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot," literally "stretchings of a bow," a typical oriental way of indicating distance.

2909. tachah -- to hurl, shoot
... to hurl, shoot. Transliteration: tachah Phonetic Spelling: (taw-khaw') Short Definition:
bowshot. ... root Definition to hurl, shoot NASB Word Usage bowshot* (1). ...
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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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Compassion for Souls
... "She went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot;
for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. ...
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The Swift Decay of Love
... a frightful contradiction of that grey altar and the twelve encircling stones which
they had so lately reared, and which stood unregarded, a bowshot off, as a ...
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Chapter xxi
... was spent, and she cast the lad under one of the bushes, and she went and seated
herself opposite him making the distance about that of a bowshot, for she said ...
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The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 6. <. ...
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Bowshot (1 Occurrence)
... Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BOWSHOT. ...Bowshot (1 Occurrence). Genesis 21:16 And she
went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. ...
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Bows (28 Occurrences)

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Bow-shot (1 Occurrence)
Bow-shot. Bowshot, Bow-shot. Bowstring . Multi-Version Concordance Bow-shot
(1 Occurrence). ... (DBY JPS WBS YLT). Bowshot, Bow-shot. Bowstring . Reference ...
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Hagar (15 Occurrences)
... When the water was spent, Hagar, unable to bear the sight of her boy dying from
thirst, laid him under a shrub and withdrew the distance of a bowshot to weep ...
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Ephesus (20 Occurrences)
... It was also a sanctuary for the criminal, a kind of city of refuge, for none might
be arrested for any crime whatever when within a bowshot of its walls. ...
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Bowshot (1 Occurrence)

Genesis 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
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Bowshot

Bows (28 Occurrences)

Bow-shot (1 Occurrence)

Hagar (15 Occurrences)

Ephesus (20 Occurrences)

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