קֶשֶׁת
Meanings
Feminine noun
1. rainbow (weather)
2. bow (a weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows) (archery)
3. arch
4. bow (a rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments) (music)
5. arc (geometry)
6. edge (a connected pair of vertices in a graph) (graph theory)
7. electric arc (physics)
8. headband
Pronunciation
késhet
Examples16
מימיי לֹא רָאִיתִי קֶשֶׁת כֹּה יָפֶה.
Never have I seen such a beautiful rainbow.
הַקֶּשֶׁת הִיא תּוֹפָעָה טִבְעִית.
A rainbow is a natural phenomenon.
מָה אׇרְכּוֹ שֶׁל גֶּשֶׁר הַקֶּשֶׁת?
How long is the Rainbow Bridge?
הַקֶּשֶׁת הזאת קָשֶׁה למְתִיחָה.
This bow has a strong draw.
עַד שֶׁהָיָה בָּן שֶׁבַע כְּבָר עָשָׂה לעַצְמוֹ קֶשֶׁת וְחִצִּים מִשֶּׁלּוֹ.
By the age of seven, he had already made his own bow and arrows.
קֶשֶׁת בְּלִי חִצִּים לֹא שָׁוֶה כְּלוּם.
A bow is no use without arrows.