how to say “rainbow” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/קשת-#.m4a” /]קֶשֶׁת

The word for rainbow is קשת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/קשת-#.m4a” /], as in:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/קשת-#.m4a” /]הם לבושים בבגדים מכל צבעי הקשת.

They’re dressed in clothing of all the colors of the rainbow.

Though at the first place the word קשת appears in the Bible it means rainbow, the word probably first meant simply bow, the type that people use to shoot arrows. קשת also means arch.

Rainbows/bows/arches are קשתות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/קשת-#.m4a” /].