# חֵץ (chets)

Israeli respelling: chets. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2671. 42 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear

King James renderings: [phrase] archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chets-h2671

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 49:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/23) — The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
- [Numbers 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/8) — God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break…
- [Deuteronomy 32:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/23) — I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
- [Deuteronomy 32:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/42) — I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from t…
- [1 Samuel 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/7) — And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield wen…
- [2 Samuel 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/15) — And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
- [2 Kings 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/13/15) — And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
- [2 Kings 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/13/17) — And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’s deliver…
- [2 Kings 19:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/32) — Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before i…
- [1 Chronicles 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/2) — They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’…
- [Job 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/4) — For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array again…
- [Job 34:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/6) — Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- [Psalms 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/13) — He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
- [Psalms 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/11/2) — For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
- [Psalms 18:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/14) — Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
- [Psalms 38:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/2) — For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
- [Psalms 45:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/45/5) — Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
- [Psalms 57:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/57/4) — My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their…
- [Psalms 58:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/7) — Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
- [Psalms 64:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/3) — Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
- [Psalms 64:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/7) — But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
- [Psalms 91:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/91/5) — Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
- [Psalms 120:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/120/4) — Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
- [Psalms 127:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/127/4) — As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
- [Psalms 144:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/6) — Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
- [Proverbs 7:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/23) — Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
- [Proverbs 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/18) — A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
- [Proverbs 26:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/18) — As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
- [Isaiah 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/28) — Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
- [Isaiah 37:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/33) — Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before i…
- [Isaiah 49:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/2) — And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he…
- [Jeremiah 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/8) — Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth hi…
- [Jeremiah 50:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/9) — For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselv…
- [Jeremiah 50:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/14) — Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against t…
- [Jeremiah 51:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/11) — Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon…
- [Lamentations 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/12) — He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- [Ezekiel 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/16) — When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I wi…
- [Ezekiel 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/21) — For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he cons…
- [Ezekiel 39:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/3) — And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
- [Ezekiel 39:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/9) — And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers,…
- [Habakkuk 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/11) — The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
- [Zechariah 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/9/14) — And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go…