Category:Quiver

Quiv"er, a. Etym: [akin to as. cwiferlice anxiously; cf. Od. kuiven, Kuiveren. Cf. Quaver.]

Defn: nimble; active. [obs.] " a little quiver fellow." Shak.

Quiver Quiv"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quivered; p. pr. & vb. n. Quivering.] Etym: [cf. Quaver.]

Defn: to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; To quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. Shak. And left the limbs still quivering on the ground. Addison.

Quiver Quiv"er, n.

Defn: the act or state of quivering; a tremor.

Quiver Quiv"er, n. Etym: [of. cuivre, cuevre, coivre, ll. cucurum, fr. Ohg. Chohhari quiver, receptacle, g. köcher quiver; akin to as. color, Cocur, cocer, d. koker. Cf. Cocker a high shoe.]

Defn: a case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person. Reside him hung his bow and quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored. Milton.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Quiver - The sheath for arrows. The Hebrew word (aspah) thus commonly rendered is found in Job 39:23; Psalms 127:5; Isaiah 22:6; Isaiah 49:2; Jeremiah 5:16; Lamentations 3:13. In Genesis 27:3 this word is the rendering of the Hebrew teli, which is supposed rather to mean a suspended weapon, literally "that which hangs from one", i.e., is suspended from the shoulder or girdle.