STRONGS NUMBER H2671


Word Summary
chets: arrow
Original Word: חֵץ
Transliteration: chets
Phonetic Spelling: (khayts)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: arrow
Meaning: a piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear
Strong's Concordance
archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound

From chatsats; properly, a piercer, i.e. An arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for ets) the shaft of a spear -- + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.

see HEBREW chatsats

see HEBREW ets

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2671. chets

חֵץnoun masculine1 Samuel 20:20 arrow, mostly in poetry and prophets (compare חֵצִי‎ above below חצה‎) — absolute ׳חPsalm 91:5 9t. + 1 Samuel 17:7 Kt (Qr עֵץ‎ q. v.); construct id. 2 Kings 1; 2 Kings 3:17; 13:17; suffix חִצִּיJob 34:6, חִצּוֺPsalm 58:8; Zechariah 9:14, חִצָּםPsalm 11:2; 64:4; Plural חִצִּיםGenesis 49:23 17t. + 1 Samuel 20:38 Qr (Kt חֵ֫צִי‎ q. v.) + 2 Samuel 22:15 (< חִצָּיו‎ "" Psalm 18:15); construct חִצֵּתJob 6:4; Psalm 120:4 + Ezekiel 5:16 (Co חִצַּי‎ compare ᵑ6 ᵐ5‎ Hi); חִצַּיDeuteronomy 32:23, 42 (Ezekiel 5:16 see above), חִצֶּיךָPsalm 38:3-4t.; חִצָּיוIsaiah 5:28 5t.; — arrow:

1 literally, shot from bow by hand 1 Samuel 20:20-21, (twice in verse); 20:22 (ᵐ5‎ We singular, i.e. הַחֵצִי‎, in 20:21; 20:22, see also Dr) 20:36; 20:38 Qr 2 Kings 19:32 = Isaiah 37:33; 5:28; 7:24; Jeremiah 50:9, 14; 51:11; Ezekiel 39:3, 9; 1 Chronicles 12:2; shot from engine of war 2 Chronicles 26:15; used in divination Ezekiel 21:26 compare 2 Kings 13:15 (twice in verse); 13:17 (twice in verse); 13:18; חִצִּים בַּעֲלֵי‎ = archers Genesis 49:23.

2 figurative of Israel's weapons Numbers 24:8, of the (Messianic) king Psalm 45:6, of Yahweh's judgments Deuteronomy 32:23, 42; Job 6:4 (compare חִצִּי‎ = my wound 34:6), Psalm 7:14; 38:3; 58:8 (but on text compare Checritical note.) 64:8; 120:4 (? compare Che); further Proverbs 7:23; Lamentations 3:12; Ezekiel 5:16; in theoph. Psalm 18:15 = 2 Samuel 22:15, compare Habakkuk 3:11; Zechariah 9:14; Psalm 144:6; of wicked men's violence 11:2; compare 91:5, under figure of lion's teeth 57:5; their words 64:4 compare Proverbs 25:18; Jeremiah 9:8; simile, of strength and efficiency derived from one's children, Psalm 127:4; of a deceiver's words Proverbs 26:18; metaphor of servant of ׳ח י ׳בָּרוּרIsaiah 49:2. — In 1 Samuel 17:7 read עֵץ‎ (for חֵץ‎) as Qr and "" 2 Samuel 21:19 = the shaft; see עֵץ‎; so Klo Dr.