Bowman
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BOWMAN

bo'-man: Israel seems not to have been equal to the surrounding peoples in the use of the bow. The battle of Gilboa was clearly lost through the superior skill of the Philistine bowmen. This seems to have moved David to encourage archery practice in Judah (2 Samuel 1:18; compare Driver in the place cited.). It is thought probable that the revival of Israel's military power under Jeroboam, son of Joash, was due to improvement in archery. Hosea, a contemporary, speaks of the bow as the national weapon of Israel (2 Samuel 1:5, 7). The most skilled bowmen of antiquity were the Assyrians (compare Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 37:33). From Assyrian reliefs it seems that it was their practice to overwhelm their enemies with the bow, and to use sword and spear only when the foe had been demoralized and put to flight.

See ARCHERY.

George B. Eager

Strong's Hebrew
7199. qashshath -- bowman
... bowman. Transliteration: qashshath Phonetic Spelling: (kash-shawth') Short Definition:
archer. ... Intensive (as denominative) from qesheth; a bowman -- X archer. ...
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7198. qesheth -- a bow
... Word Origin perhaps from qush Definition a bow NASB Word Usage archers* (3), arrows
(1), bow (54), bowman* (1), bowmen (1), bows (13), bowshot* (1), rainbow (1 ...
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7411a. ramah -- to cast, shoot
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to cast, shoot NASB Word Usage archers (1),
bowman* (1), hurled (2). 7411, 7411a. ramah. 7411b . Strong's Numbers.
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7411. ramah -- to cast, shoot
... ramah. 7411a . to cast, shoot. Transliteration: ramah Phonetic Spelling:
(raw-maw') Short Definition: beguile. beguile, betray, bowman, carry, deceive, throw ...
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Library

Letter B
... 1783, Located 1796 * Bowers, George W. "Received 1837 * Bowers, Lemuel "Received
1838 * Bowers, William "Received 1829, Located 1835 * Bowman, Elisha W ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bangs/an alphabetical list of m e preachers/letter b.htm

The Wonders of Prayer
... CULLIS, CH SPURGEON, SI PRIME, DD, BISHOP SIMPSON, E. KRUMMACHER, NEWMAN
HALL, DD, MARTIN LUTHER, BISHOP T. BOWMAN, JOHN KNOX, CHAS. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/various/the wonders of prayer/title page.htm

The General Conference of 1832
... Holston Conference: John Bowman, WG Brownlow, JK Catlett, James Cumming, George
Ekin, John Henninger, Samuel Patton, Thomas Springfield. ...
/.../chapter 11 the general conference.htm

The Ascension of Christ
... "Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall
under thee." Go not from the conflict, thou mighty bowman, but still cast ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/the ascension of christ.htm

God's Care for the Boy Ishmael
... And Jehovah cared for the boy; and when he grew up, he lived in the wilderness of
Paran and became a bowman. And his mother secured a wife for him from Egypt. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/gods care for the boy.htm

Letter cvii. To Laeta.
... The Armenian bowman has laid aside his quiver, the Huns learn the psalter,
the chilly Scythians are warmed with the glow of the faith. ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cvii to laeta.htm

Chapter xxi
... to Ishmael. 20, 21. And God was with the lad and he grew up, and lived
in the wilderness and became an archer, a bowman. And he ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xxi.htm

The Heroic Women of Early Indiana Methodism.
... Bishop Bowman well said of her at her funeral: "She was a woman of no ordinary
character, full of faith, patient, quiet, cheerful, happy.". ...
/.../the heroic women of early indiana methodism/the heroic women of early.htm

The General Conference of 1804, and of the Annual Conferences of ...
... 1806, the Rev. Elisha W. Bowman made his entrance among them as a messenger
of the cross of Christ. The Mississippi district was ...
/.../chapter 6 the general conference.htm

Letter cxxv. To Rusticus.
... an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." [3493] It sometimes happens that an arrow
when it is aimed at a hard object rebounds upon the bowman, wounding the ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxxv to rusticus.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A man who uses a bow; an archer.

2. (n.) The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

Thesaurus
Bowman (5 Occurrences)
...BOWMAN. bo'-man: Israel seems not to have been equal to the surrounding peoples
in the use of the bow. ... Multi-Version Concordance Bowman (5 Occurrences). ...
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Bowmen (13 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Plural of Bowman. Multi-Version Concordance
Bowmen (13 Occurrences). 2 Kings 8:29 So King Joram went ...
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Quick-footed (7 Occurrences)
... Amos 2:15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not
get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life. (BBE). ...
/q/quick-footed.htm - 8k

Tall (41 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Genesis 21:20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong,
and he became a bowman, living in the waste land. (BBE). ...
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Expert (59 Occurrences)
... Genesis 25:27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open
country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. (BBE). ...
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Bowl-shaped (4 Occurrences)
Bowl-shaped. Bowls, Bowl-shaped. Bowman . Multi-Version Concordance Bowl-shaped
(4 Occurrences). ... Bowls, Bowl-shaped. Bowman . Reference Bible.
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Archer (5 Occurrences)
... (see BOW). Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the
bow and arrow. Multi-Version Concordance Archer (5 Occurrences). ...
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Growth (77 Occurrences)
... Genesis 25:27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open
country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. (BBE). ...
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Horseman (13 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Amos 2:15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed
will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life. (BBE NIV). ...
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Bow (248 Occurrences)
... Genesis 21:20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he
became a bowman, living in the waste land. (Root in BBE RSV). ...
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Bible Concordance
Bowman (5 Occurrences)

Genesis 10:9 He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
(BBE)

Genesis 21:20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.
(BBE)

Genesis 25:27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 4:29 For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.
(See NAS)

Amos 2:15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.
(BBE)

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Bowman

Related Terms

Bowmen (13 Occurrences)

Quick-footed (7 Occurrences)

Tall (41 Occurrences)

Expert (59 Occurrences)

Bowl-shaped (4 Occurrences)

Archer (5 Occurrences)

Growth (77 Occurrences)

Horseman (13 Occurrences)

Bow (248 Occurrences)

Safely (83 Occurrences)

Waste (668 Occurrences)

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