Lexicon :: Strong's H7198 - qešeṯ

“But his bow remained firm and steady [in the Strength that does not fail],

For his arms were made strong and agile

By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,

(By the name of the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

“The bows of the mighty are [fn]broken,

But those who have stumbled equip themselves with strength.

“From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,

The bow of Jonathan did not turn back,

And the sword of Saul did not return empty.

“He trains my hands for war,

So that my arms can bend (pull back) a bow of bronze.

But one man drew a bow at [fn]random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight, because I have been seriously wounded.”

The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh—valiant men able to bear shield and sword, and to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war—were 44,760 who went to war.

“He may flee from the iron weapon,

But the bow of bronze will pierce him through.

‘My glory and honor are fresh in me [being constantly renewed],

And my bow gains [ever] new strength in my hand.’

“The arrow cannot make him flee;

Slingstones are treated as stubble by him.

If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;

He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.

For look, the wicked are bending the bow;

They take aim with their arrow on the string

To shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.

He trains my hands for war,

So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow

To cast down the afflicted and the needy,

To slaughter those who are upright in conduct [those with personal integrity and godly character].

For I will not trust in my bow,

Nor will my sword save me.

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;

He breaks the bow into pieces and snaps the spear in two;

He burns the chariots with fire.

There He broke the flaming arrows,

The shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

The sons of Ephraim were armed as archers and carrying bows,

Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;

They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].

Their arrows are sharp and all their bows are strung and bent;

Their horses’ hoofs seem like flint and their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon];

They will take no pity on the fruit of the womb,

Their eyes will not look with compassion on the children.

For they have fled from the swords,

From the drawn sword, from the bent bow

And from the press of battle and grief of war.

All your leaders have fled together [with your king],

And have been captured without the bow [which they had thrown away];

All of you who were found were taken captive together,

Though they had fled far away.

“Who has stirred up and put into action one from the east [the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great]

Whom He calls in righteousness to His service and whom victory meets at every step?

The LORD turns nations over to him

And subdues kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

Like wind-driven chaff with his bow.