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טָחָה

ta.chah

to shoot

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Strong’s H2909Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the shooters of1

In the text

Genesis 21:16כִּמְטַחֲוֵי
Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[טָחָה] vb. hurl, shoot—only Pil. Gn 21:16 (E)

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.