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H2671 חֵץ (chêts) khayts
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 2686; properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear

KJV Usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חֵץ (chets) — arrow. arrow

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · חצץ

Weapons

arrow = pointed missile, shot from a bow; slender and straight in shape and moving swiftly; ◄ made out of wood and/or iron; ► mainly used for hunting, in warfare, and occasionally for divination; ≈ symbol of aggression, affliction, and punishment

GEN 49:23 · NUM 24:8 · DEU 32:23 · DEU 32:42 · 1SA 20:20 · 1SA 20:21 · 1SA 20:21 · 1SA 20:22 · 1SA 20:36 · 1SA 20:38 · 2KI 13:15 · 2KI 13:15 · 2KI 13:17 · 2KI 13:17 · 2KI 13:18 · 2KI 19:32 · 1CH 12:2 · 2CH 26:15 · JOB 6:4 · PSA 7:14 · PSA 11:2 · PSA 38:3 · PSA 45:6 · PSA 57:5 · PSA 64:8 · PSA 91:5 · PSA 120:4 · PSA 127:4 · PRO 7:23 · PRO 25:18 · PRO 26:18 · ISA 5:28 · ISA 7:24 · ISA 37:33 · ISA 49:2 · JER 9:7 · JER 50:9 · JER 50:14 · JER 51:11 · LAM 3:12 · EZK 21:26 · EZK 39:3 · EZK 39:9

Weapons

bow literally: arrow, but used metonymically; hence: = a strong but flexible piece of wood to which a string is attached for the firing of arrows, ► used for hunting or as weapon of war

PSA 58:8 · PSA 64:4

Fire

arrow > lightning literally: arrow; hence: = visible electric discharge between cloud and ground, shaped and moving like an arrow and considered to consist of fire

2SA 22:15 · PSA 18:15 · PSA 77:18 · PSA 144:6 · HAB 3:11 · ZEC 9:14

Impact | ≈ בִּעוּת · רָעָה

arrow > affliction, suffering = causative event by which deities or humans cause physical or non-physical suffering to humans, ◄ depicted as an arrow

JOB 34:6 · EZK 5:16

1 1SA 20:38 MT-K החצי | MT-Q הַחִצִּים 2 PSA 58:8 MT-K חצו | MT-Q חִצָּיו

Reinier de Blois
Ryan Sikes

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֵץ n.m. arrow, mostly poet. and proph. base

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