What Is Arrow in the Bible?
Object
An arrow, the kind that is shot with a bow.
A detail
- In the Bible: with three arrows, Jonathan let David know whether he could come back or had to flee from Saul.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Samuel 20:20; 1 Samuel 20:22; 1 Samuel 20:36
What the Bible says
1 Samuel 20:20
And I will shoot three arrows near it, and will shoot as if I were exercising myself at a mark.
1 Samuel 20:22
If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of thee, take them up: come thou to me, because, there is peace to thee, and there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to the boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord hath sent thee away.
1 Samuel 20:36
And he said to his boy: Go, and fetch me the arrows which I shoot. And when the boy ran, he shot another arrow beyond the boy.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “arrow”