If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 7:12 · retained source text
If he turne not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bowe, and made it ready.
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bent
Meaning of “bent”
Sense 1: Curved, bowed, or drawn. Sense 2: Firmly inclined or purposed.
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8 occurrences8 verses5 booksKJV PCE
First occurrence: Psalms 7:12
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Every verse containing “bent”
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 37:14 · retained source text
The wicked haue drawen out the sword, and haue bent their bow to cast downe the poore and needy, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the vpright of way.
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 5:28 · retained source text
Whose arrowes are sharpe, and all their bowes bent, their horses hoofs shall bee counted like flint, and their wheeles like a whirlewind.
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 21:15 · retained source text
For they fled from the swords, from the drawen sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.
1611 marginal noteOr, for feare. Heb. from the face.
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
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1611 witness · Lamentations 2:4 · retained source text
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an aduersary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye, in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he powred out his furie like fire.
1611 marginal noteHeb. all the desireable of the eye.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Lamentations 3:12 · retained source text
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
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1611 witness · Hosea 11:7 · retained source text
And my people are bent to backesliding from mee: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
1611 marginal noteHebr. together they exalted not.
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
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1611 witness · Zechariah 9:13 · retained source text
When I haue bent Iudah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised vp thy sonnes O Zion, against thy sonnes, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mightie man.
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