KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Discharging arrows from a bow. 2. Springing or growing upward.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Chronicles 12:2
Complete exact-word concordance
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.
They were armed with bowes, and could vse both the right hand and the left, in hurling stones, and shooting arrowes out of a bow, euen of Sauls brethren of Beniamin.
THUS hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
¶ Thus hath the LORD God shewed vnto me, and behold, he formed grassehoppers in the beginning of the shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was the latter grouth after the kings mowings.
1611 marginal noteOr greene-wormes.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Discharging or sending with force; pushing or springing out; germinating or branching.
