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."

Answer 2

The name "rainbow" comes from the Latin words "arcus" meaning bow, and "pluvius" meaning rain. It refers to the optical and meteorological phenomenon that occurs when sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed in water droplets in the Earth's atmosphere, creating a colorful arc of light in the sky.