Strong's Hebrew #2909 - טָחה tachah (to hurl)

Original Word:	טָחה
Transliteration:	tachah
Definition:	to hurl, shoot
Part of Speech:	Verb
Phonetic Spelling:	(taw-khaw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bowshot

A primitive root; to stretch a bow, as an archer -- (bow-)shot.

Englishman's Concordance

1) to hurl, shoot
1a) (Piel) a bowshot (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 800

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[טָחָה] verb hurl, shoot (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic

spread, extend, carry far with, e.g. a ball Lane^1832c) — only

Pil. Participle (Ges^{§ 75} R 18) plural construct הַרְחֵק כִּמְטַחֲוֵי קֶשֶׁת Genesis 21:16 (E), literally making distant like shooters of a bow = about a bowshot off.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2909. טָחָה (tachah) — 1 Occurrence
Genesis 21:16
HEB: מִנֶּ֗גֶד הַרְחֵק֙ כִּמְטַחֲוֵ֣י קֶ֔שֶׁת כִּ֣י
NAS: opposite him, about a bowshot away,
KJV: [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said,
INT: against away shot arch for

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