Where does the name for a rainbow come from?

Answer 1

It is a colorful bow made from sunlight in the moisture in the air before, during or after a rain. New Answer. It is and arch but the word arch did not fit as a whole word with rain, so the word bow was used instead of arch, Rainarch does not fit well, so rainbow was used instead. A rainbow is an arch of the true colours of light that is created when Its Rains. An Arch is created with the Rain and light. Original definition based from Genesis 9: Comes from the Hebrew "bow", the same word for a bow that shoots arrows. The idea was that God promised not to flood the earth ever again because of the evil which had "flooded the earth." He makes a covenant with Noah as a promise that he still cares for all creation and that he figuratively "hangs up his bow", a weapon of war and transformed it into a symbol of grace. The flood had served its purpose as a token of judgment on evil for all of history, and it gave the human race a "new start."