קשת

Hebrew

Root
ק־שׁ־ת (q-sh-t)
3 terms

קֶשֶׁת הוּנִית

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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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Noun

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

1. (weather) rainbow
   • Tanach, Genesis 9:13, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     אֶת־קַשְׁתִּ֕י נָתַ֖תִּי בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן וְהָֽיְתָה֙ לְא֣וֹת בְּרִ֔ית בֵּינִ֖י וּבֵ֥ין הָאָֽרֶץ׃

     Et-kashtí natatí be-'anán ve-hayá le-'ót brit bení u-vén ha-'árets.

     I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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

References

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

Noun

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.

Proper noun

קַשָּׁת • (kashát)

1. (astronomy) Sagittarius (a constellation of the zodiac traditionally figured as a centaur drawing a bow)
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))

See also

Zodiac signs in Hebrew (layout · text)
טָלֶה (Talé)	שׁוֹר (Shor)	תְּאוֹמִים (Te'omím)	סַרְטָן (Sartán)
אַרְיֵה (Aryé)	בְּתוּלָה (Betulá)	מאזניים (Moznáyim)	עַקְרָב (Akráv)
קַשָּׁת (Kashát)	גְּדִי (Gdi)	דְּלִי (Dli)	דָּגִים (Dagím)

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