Grow With Me
Grow With Me

חִצִּי

chitsi · arrow

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2678 · appears 13 times in the Bible

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What it means

chitsi (חִצִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “arrow”.

It is a less common form of the ordinary word for "arrow" (chets).

How to say it

chi·tsi

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The pointed shot that is fired from a bow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • arrows ×9
  • arrow ×4

Where it appears

  • 1 Samuel 20:20

    And I will shoot three arrows to its side, as if shooting at a target.

  • 1 Samuel 20:21

    And look, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say plainly to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; take them,’ then come, for there is peace for you and there is nothing, as YHWH lives.

  • 1 Samuel 20:22

    But if I say this to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ go, for YHWH has sent you away.

  • 1 Samuel 20:36

    He said to his boy, “Run, find, please, the arrows that I shoot.” The boy ran, and he shot the arrow to make it pass beyond him.

  • 1 Samuel 20:37

    The boy came as far as the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, and Jonathan called after the boy and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”

  • 1 Samuel 20:38

    Jonathan called after the boy, “Quickly, hurry, do not stand still!” And the boy of Jonathan gathered the arrows and came to his master.

  • 2 Kings 9:24

    Jehu filled his hand with the bow and struck Joram between his arms, and the arrow came out from his heart, and he sank down in his chariot.

  • 2 Kings 13:18

    He said, “Take the arrows.” And he took them. He said to the king of Israel, “Strike toward the ground.” And he struck three times and stopped.

  • 2 Chronicles 26:15

    He made in Jerusalem devices, the invention of an inventor, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. And his name went out far, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

  • Isaiah 7:24

    With arrows and with bow one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.

And 3 more times.