Battle-Bow
Battle-bow
( , ke’sheth milchamah’, bow of battle) occurs in Zec 9:10; Zec 10:4, for the warbow used in fighting. SEE ARMOR.
Among the Egyptians, on commencing the attack in the open field, at a signal made by sound of trumpet, the archers drawn up in line first discharged a shower of arrows on the enemy’s front, and a considerable mass of chariots advanced to the charge; the heavy infantry, armed with spears or clubs, and covered with their shields, moved forward at the same time in close array, flanked by chariots and cavalry, and pressed upon the center and wings of the enemy, the archers still galling the hostile columns with their arrows, and endeavoring to create disorder in their ranks (Wilkinson, 1:405, abridgm.). SEE BATTLE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Battle-bow
the war-bow used in fighting (Zech. 9:10; 10:4). “Thy bow was made quite naked” (Hab. 3:9) means that it was made ready for use. By David’s order (2 Sam. 1:18) the young men were taught the use, or rather the song of the bow. (See ARMOUR, BOW.)
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Battle Bow
BATTLE BOW.See Armour, 1 (d).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Battle-Bow
bat’l-bo: Found in the striking Messianic prophecy: The battle bow shall be cut off (Zec 9:10). The prophet is predicting the peace that shall prevail when Zion’s king cometh, just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass. The words convey their full significance only when read in the light of the context: I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the nations (compare Zec 10:4). The battle-bow was sometimes made of tough wood, sometimes of two straight horns joined together (Hom. Il. iv.105-11), and sometimes of bronze. In Psa 18:34 the Revised Version (British and American) we find bow of brass, but it probably should be of bronze (, nehosheth), a metal very different from our brass, which is a mixture of copper and zinc. The point of the passage in this connection (He teacheth my hands to war; so that mine arms do bend a bow of bronze), as well as of that in 2Ki 9:24 (And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength) is that it required great strength to bend the battle-bow. See ARCHERY; ARMOR.