עֲרוּגָה
ʻărûwgâh · H6170 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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raised bed
A raised area of land where plants are grown
ExamplesSong of Solomon 5:13 “His cheeks are like a bed of balsam, Banks of herbal spices; His lips are lilies Dripping with drops of myrrh.
Song of Solomon 6:2 “My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of balsam, To pasture his flock in the gardens And gather lilies.
Ezekiel 17:7 “But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine turned its roots toward him and sent out its branches toward him from the beds where it was planted, so that he might water it.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- בֶּשֶׂםbalsam tree 2
- מַטָּעplanting 1
- צֶמַחsprout 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִגְדָּלtower 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לְחִיjaw 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- מִןfrom 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- כlike/as 1
- לto/for 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- תֶּלֶם telem · H8525 · furrow
- Both עֲרוּגָה and תֶּלֶם can denote agricultural furrows or cultivated rows. תֶּלֶם emphasizes the furrow or ridge made by plowing, while עֲרוּגָה more broadly refers to a garden bed or cultivated plot. They overlap significantly in agricultural contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πρασιά prasiá · G4237 · group
- Greek πρασιά refers to a garden bed or plot of ground, used in Mark 6:40 for the arrangement of groups (literally 'garden beds'). This is the natural Greek equivalent for the agricultural sense of עֲרוּגָה as a cultivated bed or plot.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landscapes001002004
- עֲרוּגָה denotes a garden bed or furrow, a cultivated feature of the landscape.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6170. arugah [עֲרוּגָה] noun feminine garden terrace or bed; — construct הַבּשֶֹׁם…
[עֲרוּגָה] noun feminine garden terrace or bed; — construct הַבּשֶֹׁם עֲרוּגַת Son 5:13 bed of balsam (simile); plural construct הַבּ ׳עֲרֻגוֺת Son 6:2, ׳ע מַטָּעָהּ Eze 17:7 i.e. where the vine was planted, צִמְחָהּ עֲרֻגֹת Eze 17:10 (all figurative).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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