Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
QUIVER, the box or case for arrows. Gen 27:3. The word is often used figuratively. Isa 49:2; Lam 3:13. In Jer 5:16 the slaughter and desolation which should be brought upon Egyptian Quivers with Bows. the Israelites by the invasion of the Chaldaeans is expressed by the calling their quivers "an open sepulchre," or their arrows certain death. See Armor.
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