חֵץ
ḥēṣ
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Strong's H2671NounHebrewTWOT 721b

חֵץ (ḥēṣ) is a Hebrew noun meaning arrow. It appears 45 times in 16 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2671).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 721b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 721b)arrow; piercer, wound, bolt, shaft; archer, dart, staff
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חֵץ noun, masculine: arrow

Strong's H2671 חֵץ: properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; the shaft of a spear
KJV:archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 721: חָצַץ ḥāṣaṣ — divide; they have been cut in two, curtailed; chop, pierce, sever, distribute, shoot; archer, cut off in the midst

See it in Scripture

Genesis 49:23Numbers 24:8Deuteronomy 32:23

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