Bow Dream Interpretation: Insights from 14 Unique Sources

In a dream, a bow means travels, a brother, a wife, a son or closeness to someone.

A covered bow in a dream means that, one’s wife is pregnant.

If a pregnant woman hands a man a bow in a dream, it means that she will conceive a girl from him.

If a pregnant woman hands her husband a bow in a dream, it means that she will deliver a boy. Stretching the strings of a bow in a dream means longevity. Stretching it without an arrow in a dream means planning to travel.

A broken bow in a dream signifies the death of a brother, a business partner, or a son.

A bow is broken bow in a dream means that an accident may cause the hand of a brother or a business partner to fracture. Holding a broken bow in a dream means losing one’s job or closing one’s business. Seeing a young man attaching a string to a bow in a dream represents one’s enemy. Attaching a string to a bow in a dream also means marriage, while detaching the string of a bow in a dream means divorce. Seeing oneself standing before a ruler with two bows length between them mean receiving an appointment.

The two bows in a dream also represent one’s eye-brows. Shooting arrows with a bow in a dream means speaking wrong about something or backbiting someone. Carving a bow in a dream means preparing to get married or begetting a son. Shooting an arrow and hitting one’s target in a dream means fulfilling one’s needs, or attaining one’s goal. Selling one’s bow and arrows in a dream means giving priority to one’s religious life over that of his mundane one. Shooting hazelnuts in a town in a dream means backbiting people, while shooting hazelnuts in the forest means earning lawful money from hunting. Shooting arrows in front of the city hall in a dream means backbiting or slandering others. Shooting a pigeon in a dream means slandering one’s own wife. Bending an arch in a dream means preparing for war.

(See Eye-brow)

1- Since bowing is indicative of giving someone else status, to be bowing to someone in a dream would indicate our sense of inferiority.

To perceive a bow, as in Cupid’s bow. within a dream can indicate the need to be loved the union of masculine and feminine.

2- While intellectually we may not need to feci inferior, on an unconscious level we may actually sense someone else’s need to feel superior and acknowledge that in the dream stale.

To see a bow made of ribbon in a dream is making a connection to the feminine principle and beauty.

3- Variously a bow can indicate superiority, union of masculine and feminine, celebration.

To dream of a ribbon tied in a bow (on a dress, around a tree, etc.) is lucky, signifying happy relationships. Anything else tied in a bow represents respect. You are acknowledging a greater and larger power in your life, whether that is spiritual or an authority figure.

To see an archer’s bow in your dream refers to the pursuit and accomplishment of your goals.

Psychological / emotional perspective: While intellectually we may not feel inferior, bowing in a dream shows that on an unconscious level we may actually sense someone else’s need to feel superior and acknowledge that in the dream state. Such a dream could also indicate our own sense of inferiority.

Material aspects: To perceive a bow, as in cupid’s bow, can indicate the need to be loved – the union of masculine and feminine.

To see a bow made of ribbon is making a connection to the feminine principle and beauty.

An archery bow represents a compulsive force.

Gives gender-specific: When the arrow is taken to represent masculine energy, in a man’s dream the bow – the actual means of propulsion – signifies his need to succeed. In a woman’s dream it will suggest her need to procreate.

Wearing a bow in your hair may point to a childish attitude. It may also suggest that you are trying to look too cute. On a wrapped gift, a bow may indicate that what you have to deliver to the world is being presented in a neat package.

a vision of a bow is interpreted upon 7 sides: travel, child, brother & woman, good descriptions / depictions, strength, difficult men, according to the bow’s rigidity / fastening.

A dream of bowing to someone suggests either a deep appreciation or an unwilling submission. Consider the feeling tone.

See Ribbon or Archer.

(Archer’s) Power to set goals, force to accomplish them. Flexibility. Strength which can aim the arrow of achievement.

See Archer, Arrow.

Variously a bow can indicate superiority, the union of masculine and feminine and celebration.

To honor the God within; to recognize and honor a part of self.

See Shooting.

See Arrow.