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title: קַשָּׁת — bowman · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַשָּׁת (7199), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bowman. BDB 1906: n.m. bowman. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַשָּׁת

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«קַשָּׁת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bowman** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7199 · **BDB:** קַשָּׁת

### Glosses

a.bowman (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bowman [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7199/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. bowman [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7199/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bowman (si vera l.);—וַיְהִי רֹבֶה ק׳ Gn 21:20 and he became, growing up, a bowman; but ר׳ then superfluous (om. 𝔊), after וַיִּגְדָּ֑ל v a; Kn Di רֹבֵה קָ֑שֶׁת (= רֹמֵה ק׳ Je 4:29, which Ball reads here), cf. Holz Gunk.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַשָּׁת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7199/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 21:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.20/)

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וַיְהִ֧י אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הַנַּ֖עַר וַיִּגְדָּ֑ל וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר וַיְהִ֖י רֹבֶ֥ה קַשָּֽׁת׃

*Word for word:* and he.was God with the lad and he.grew.up and he.dwelt in the wilderness and he.was a.shooter a.bowman

*JPS 1917:* And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

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