Bow and arrow imagery uses drawn bows, arrows, shafts, targets, and quivers to describe judgment, attack, deliverance, children, prophetic speech, or divine warfare.
Bow and arrow imagery uses drawn bows, arrows, shafts, targets, and quivers to describe judgment, attack, deliverance, children, prophetic speech, or divine warfare.
A biblical projectile motif in which bow and arrow language may signify military readiness, divine wrath, hostile threat, children as covenant strength, or the piercing effectiveness of God’s appointed word.
These examples show how Bow and Arrow Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
his bow abode in strength
Bow imagery pictures Joseph’s strength sustained by God.
The arrow of the LORD's deliverance
Arrow imagery symbolizes divinely promised victory over Syria.
the arrows of the Almighty are within me
Arrow imagery expresses Job’s sense of being pierced by divine affliction.
he hath bent his bow... ordained his arrows
Bow and arrow imagery portrays God’s prepared judgment.
make ready their arrow upon the string
Arrow imagery pictures secret hostile attack against the upright.
Thine arrows are sharp
Arrow imagery portrays the king’s victorious power over enemies.
children... are as arrows
Arrow imagery presents children as strength and future protection for the household.
made me a polished shaft
Shaft imagery describes the servant as a prepared instrument of God’s purpose.
he set me as a mark for the arrow
Arrow imagery depicts the suffering speaker as a target under judgment.
thy bow was made quite naked
Bow imagery presents the LORD as divine warrior acting in judgment and salvation.
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