Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
bow
Usage: τόξον, -ου, τό [in LXX chiefly for קֶשֶׁת ;] a bow: Rev.6:2.† (AS)
Toxon means “bow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5115 — navah (“keept at home”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5115 τόξον (toxon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. toxon (tox'-on) n. 1. a bow (apparently as the simplest fabric) [from the base of G5088] It has 72 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include bow. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
toxon (tox'-on) n. 1. a bow (apparently as the simplest fabric) [from the base of G5088] KJV: bow Root(s): G5088
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bow
Usage: τόξον, -ου, τό [in LXX chiefly for קֶשֶׁת ;] a bow: Rev.6:2.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render toxon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5115 (τόξον) appears 75 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
67 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall be seen in the cloud.
And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power; they are exalted with horse and man; they glory in the strength of their footmen; they trust in shield, and spear, and bow, and sling; and know not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles: the Lord is thy name.
Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; And from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.
Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; Very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.
First 72 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5115.
I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall be seen in the cloud.
And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.
And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bowshot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.
Now then take thy weapons, both thy quiver and thy bow, and go into the plain, and get me venison,
And I give to thee Shechem, a select portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and bow.
But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, And the sinews of their arms were slackened By the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; Thence is he that strengthened Israel From the God of thy father;
And he sent forth the hornet before you; and he drove them out from before you, even twelve kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, And the weak have girded themselves with strength.
From the blood of the slain, and from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan returned not empty; And the sword of Saul turned not back empty.
He teaches my hands to war, And has broken a brazen bow by my arm.
And one drew a bow with a good aim, and smote the king of Israel between the lungs and the breastplate: and he said to his charioteer, Turn thy hands, and carry me away out of the battle, for I am wounded.
And he said, Thou shalt not smite them, unless thou wouldest smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow: set bread and water before them, and let them eat and drink, and depart to their master.
And Jehu bent his bow with his full strength, and smote Joram between his arms, and his arrow went out at his heart, and he bowed upon his knees.
And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took to himself a bow and arrows.
And he said to the king, Put thy hand on the bow. And Joash put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands.
And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And the king smote three times, and stayed.
The sons of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, were forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.
And the sons of Ulam were mighty men, bending the bow, and multiplying sons and grandsons, a hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
And the battle prevailed against Saul, and the archers hit him with bows and arrows, and they were wounded of the bows.
and using the bow with the right hand and with the left, and slingers with stones, and shooters with bows. Of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin,
And a man drew a bow with a good aim, and smote the king of Israel between the lungs and the breastplate: and he said to the charioteer, Turn thy hand, drive me out of the battle, for I am wounded.
And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and breastplates, and bows, and slings for stones.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; Let the brazen bow wound him.
My glory was fresh in me, And my bow prospered in his hand.
The bow and sword resound against him; And his rage will swallow up the ground:
The bow of brass shall not wound him, He deems a slinger as grass.
If ye will not repent, he will furbish his sword; He has bent his bow, and made it ready.
For behold the sinners have bent their bow, They have prepared their arrows for the quiver, To shoot privily at the upright in heart.
He instructs my hands for war; And thou hast made my arms as a brazen bow.
Sinners have drawn their swords, They have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy one, And to slay the upright in heart.
Let their sword enter into their own heart, And their bows be broken.
For I will not trust in my bow, And my sword shall not save me.
Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; He will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, And burn the bucklers with fire.
They shall utterly pass away like water running through: He shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
Thou hast given a token to them that fear thee, That they might flee from the bow. Pause.
Who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; They have bent their bow maliciously;
There he broke the power of the bows, The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause.
The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, Turned back in the day of battle.
And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: They became like a crooked bow.
Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot wheels are as a storm.
Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?
The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man dwelt in them.
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; the people is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against thee as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Zion.
And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord, The bow of Elam is broken, even the chief of their power.
Mount ye the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, ye warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, ye Lydians, bend the bow.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
Summon many against Babylon, even everyone that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her people escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
the people is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.
For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.
He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: He has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, And has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes In the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: He has poured forth his anger as fire.
He has bent his bow, And set me as a mark for the arrow.
As the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of the brightness round about.
And I will destroy thy bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel;
And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and spears, and bows and arrows, and hand staffs, and lances, and they shall keep fire burning with them for seven years:
And it shall be, in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.
But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.
And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell safely.
They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.
Surely thou didst bend thy bow At scepters, saith the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.
And he shall destroy the chariots out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be utterly destroyed; and there shall be abundance and peace out of the nations; and he shall rule over the waters as far as the sea, and the rivers to the ends of the earth.
For I have bent thee, O Judah, for myself as a bow, I have filled Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O Zion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle thee as the sword of a warrior.
And from him he looked, and from him he set the battle in order, and from him came the bow in anger, and from him shall come forth every oppressor together.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power; they are exalted with horse and man; they glory in the strength of their footmen; they trust in shield, and spear, and bow, and sling; and know not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles: the Lord is thy name.
Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; And from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.
Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; Very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.
As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High, And as the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5115, grouped by book.
Toxon (Strong's G5115) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bow". toxon (tox'-on) n. 1. a bow (apparently as the simplest fabric) [from the base of G5088]
This page currently indexes 72 linked usages for Strong's G5115 across 22 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5115 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bow. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 67 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5115, with linked reader references where each row is available.