'Bent' in the Bible

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:

For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him .

For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.