Easton's Bible Dictionary A shooter with the bow (1 Chronicles 10:3). This art was of high antiquity (Genesis 21:20; 27:3). Saul was wounded by the Philistine archers (1 Samuel 31:3). The phrase "breaking the bow" (Hosea 1:5; Jeremiah 49:35) is equivalent to taking away one's power, while "strengthening the bow" is a symbol of its increase (Genesis 49:24). The Persian archers were famous among the ancients (Isaiah 13:18; Jeremiah 49:35; 50:9, 14, 29, 42. (see BOW). Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

Multi-Version Concordance Archer (5 Occurrences) Genesis 21:20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Proverbs 6:5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her. (BBE) Proverbs 26:10 As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by. (WEB ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 4:29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. (Root in WEB RSV NIV) Jeremiah 51:3 Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)