קשת

Cognate with Akkadian 𒄑𒉼 (qaštum, “bow”), Arabic قَوْس (qaws, “bow”) and Amharic ቀስት (ḳäst).

• (קֶשֶׁת, késhet):
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈkeʃet/
  • (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ke.ʃes/, /kej.ʃejs/
  • (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈqe.ʃeθ/
  • (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈke.ʃet̪/, [ˈke.ʃeθ]
  • (Syrian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈqe.ʃet/, [ˈʔe.ʃet]
  • (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.ʃæθ/
  • (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈqɛ.ʃɛθ/
• (קַשָּׁת, kashát):
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kaˈʃat/

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קֶשֶׁת • (késhet) f (plural indefinite קְשָׁתוֹת, singular construct קֶשֶׁת־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. (weather) rainbow
2. (archery) bow (a weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows)
3. (architecture) arch
4. (music) bow (a rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments)
5. (geometry) arc
6. (graph theory) edge (a connected pair of vertices in a graph)
7. (physics) electric arc
8. headband

• (rainbow): קֶשֶׁת בְּעָנָן (késhet be'anán)

• דַּקַּת קֶשֶׁת (dakát késhet)
• חץ וקשת
• קשת ארוכה / קֶשֶׁת אֲרֻכָּה (késhet aruká)

• H7198 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

קַשָּׁת • (kashát) m (plural indefinite קַשָּׁתִים, singular construct קַשַּׁת־) [pattern: קַטָּל]

1. archer; soldier whose main weapon is the bow and arrow
   • Tanach, Genesis 21:20, with translation of the New International Version:

     וַיְהִי אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הַנַּעַר וַיִּגְדָּל וַיֵּשֶׁב בַּמִּדְבָּר וַיְהִי רֹבֶה קַשָּׁת׃

     God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.

קַשָּׁת • (kashát)

1. (astronomy) Sagittarius (a constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a centaur who is an archer)
2. (astrology) Sagittarius (the zodiac sign for the archer, ruled by Jupiter and covering November 23 - December 21 (tropical astrology) or December 16 - January 14 (sidereal astrology))

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