Reference: Arrows
Easton
At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (De 32:23,42; Ps 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zec 9:14). They were used in war as well as in the chase (Ge 27:3; 49:23). They were also used in divination (Eze 21:21).
The word is frequently employed as a symbol of calamity or disease inflicted by God (Job 6:4; 34:6; Ps 38:2; De 32:23. Comp. Eze 5:16), or of some sudden danger (Ps 91:5), or bitter words (Ps 64:3), or false testimony (Pr 25:18).
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Now, therefore, take I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison
The arches have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him;
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh, in the blood of the slain and of the captives of the heads, in revenge as an enemy.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.
In my judgment he was a liar, my arrow wound is grievous without my having committed a transgression.
He has also prepared for him the weapons of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.
He sent out his arrows and scattered them; he shot out lightnings and destroyed them.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore.
Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day,
Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows and destroy them.
A man that bears false witness against his neighbour is a maul and a sword and a sharp arrow.
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction and which I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and will destroy your sustenance of bread.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way at the head of the two ways to use divination; he made his arrows bright; he consulted with images; he looked in the liver.
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the shofar and shall go forth as the whirlwinds of the south.
Morish
With the bow, a common weapon of the ancients. We know not of what wood the arrows of the Israelites were made. Apparently the arrows were sometimes poisoned. Job 6:4; Ps 120:4; Nu 24:8; De 32:23, etc. Arrows are used metaphorically for the judgements of God, Ps 38:2; 45:5: also for anything sharp and painful, as smiting by the tongue. Jer 9:8.
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God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has, as it were, the strength of a unicorn; he shall eat up the Gentiles his enemies and shall break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows.
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore.
Their tongue is as a sharp arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but in heart he lays in wait.
Smith
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