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# קַשָּׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7199

**bowman** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bowman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7199/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַשָּׁת: n.m. bowman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7199/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a bowman (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.20/#tree)

וַיְהִ֧י אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הַנַּ֖עַר וַיִּגְדָּ֑ל וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר וַיְהִ֖י רֹבֶ֥ה קַשָּֽׁת׃

*Word for word:* and he.was God with the lad and he.grew.up and he.dwelt in the wilderness and he.was a.shooter a.bowman

*JPS 1917:* And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7199.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7199/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).