chets · arrow

What it means

chets (חֵץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “arrow”.

How to say it

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. A thin pointed shaft shot from a bow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• arrows ×27
• arrow ×15
• archers ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×5
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×13
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him;

• Numbers 24:8

  El brings him out of Egypt; he has as it were the horns of the wild ox. He shall devour the nations, his adversaries, and break their bones, and with his arrows shatter them.

• Deuteronomy 32:23

  I will heap on them evils; my arrows I will spend on them.

• Deuteronomy 32:42

  I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.’

• 2 Samuel 22:15

  He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning, and threw them into confusion.

• 2 Kings 13:15

  Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and arrows.” So he took for himself a bow and arrows.

• 2 Kings 13:17

  He said, “Open the window toward the east.” And he opened it. Elisha said, “Shoot.” And he shot. He said, “An arrow of victory of YHWH, and an arrow of victory against Aram! You will strike Aram at Aphek until you have finished it.”

• 2 Kings 19:32

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the king of Assyria: He will not come into this city and will not shoot there an arrow, and will not come before it with a shield, and will not heap up against it a siege ramp.

• 1 Chronicles 12:2

  Armed with the bow, using the right hand and the left with stones and with arrows from the bow, they were of the brothers of Saul, from Benjamin.

• Job 6:4

  For the arrows of Shaddai are with me, whose venom my spirit drinks; the terrors of Eloah are arrayed against me.

• Job 34:6

  Concerning my right, should I lie? Incurable is my arrow, without transgression.’

• Psalms 7:13

  And for him he has prepared weapons of death; he makes his arrows fiery.

• Psalms 11:2

  For look, the wicked bend the bow; they have made ready their arrow on the string to shoot in the darkness at the upright in heart.

• Psalms 18:14

  He sent out his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts, and threw them into confusion.

• Psalms 38:2

  For your arrows have come down into me, and your hand has come down upon me.

• Psalms 45:5

  Your arrows are sharp; peoples will fall under you; in the heart of the enemies of the king.

• Psalms 57:4

  My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among those who blaze, human beings whose teeth are a spear and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

• Psalms 58:7

  Let them dissolve like water that flows away; when he draws his arrows, let them be as if blunted.

• Psalms 64:3

  who have sharpened like a sword their tongue; they have drawn their arrow, a bitter word,

• Psalms 64:7

  But Elohim shoots them with an arrow; suddenly their wounds come.

• Psalms 91:5

  You will not fear the dread of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

• Psalms 120:4

  Sharp arrows of a warrior, with coals of broom.

• Psalms 127:4

  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of youth.

• Psalms 144:6

  Flash lightning, and scatter them; send your arrows, and rout them.

• Proverbs 7:23

  until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird hurries to the snare, and does not know that his soul is at stake in it.

• Proverbs 25:18

  A club and a sword and a sharp arrow is a man who answers against his neighbor as a false witness.

• Proverbs 26:18

  Like a madman who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,

• Isaiah 5:28

  Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent; the hooves of its horses are counted like flint, and its wheels like the whirlwind.

• Isaiah 37:33

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the king of Assyria: He will not come into this city and will not shoot there an arrow, and will not come before it with a shield, and will not heap up against it a siege ramp.

• Isaiah 49:2

  And he made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; and he made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he concealed me.

• Jeremiah 9:8

  A deadly arrow is their tongue; it speaks deceit; with his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, but within him he sets his ambush.

• Jeremiah 50:9

  For look, I am stirring up and bringing up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north; and they will set themselves in array against her; from there she will be captured. Its arrows are like those of a skilled mighty man who does not return empty-handed.

• Jeremiah 50:14

  Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all who bend the bow; shoot at her, do not spare arrows, for against YHWH she has sinned.

• Jeremiah 51:11

  Sharpen the arrows! Fill the shields! YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of Media, for against Babylon is his purpose, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of YHWH, the vengeance for his temple.

• Lamentations 3:12

  He has bent his bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

• Ezekiel 5:16

  When I send the evil arrows of famine against them, which are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and famine I will add on you, and I will break for you the staff of bread.

• Ezekiel 21:21

  For the king of Babylon has stopped at the crossroads, at the head of the two roads, to practice divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.

• Ezekiel 39:3

  And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and your arrows I will make fall from your right hand.

• Ezekiel 39:9

  And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out, and they will make fires and kindle them with weapons, both shield and large shield, with bow and with arrows, and with hand staff and with spear; and they will make fires with them for seven years.

• Habakkuk 3:11

  The sun, the moon stood still in their lofty dwelling; at the light of your arrows they go to and fro, at the brightness of the lightning of your spear.

And 3 more times.