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רֶגֶב

regeb · H7263 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. clod

    Lump of earth or clay

    Examples

    Job 21:33 “The clods of the valley will gently cover him; Moreover, all mankind will follow after him, While countless others go before him.

    Job 38:38 When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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 3 words
עָפָר ʻâphâr · H6083 · dirt, dust, powder
Both words denote earthy or soil material but differ in specificity: עָפָר is a general term for dust, earth and powder, while רֶגֶב is a rare, specific term for a clod.
חֹמֶר chômer · H2563 · mud, clay, mortar
Both lexemes denote earthy/soil-related substances (clay/mire vs. clod) within the Dust domain, suggesting genuine overlapping semantic territory as near-synonyms for dry/earthy matter.
מִגְרָפָה migrâphâh · H4053 · clod
Both words are distinct Hebrew words for the same concrete object, a lump of earth; each occurs only once or twice.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Dust001002005005
The word means a clod, directly illustrated by "the clods of the valley" gently covering the dead (Job 21:33) and dust hardening "into a mass" while "the clods stick together" (Job 38:38).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7263. regeb [רֶ֫גֶב] noun masculine clod of earth; — plural יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ רְגָכִים Job…
H7263. regeb
[רֶ֫גֶב] noun masculine clod of earth; — plural יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ רְגָכִים Job 38:38 clods are joined together; construct נָחַ֑ל רְגְבֵי Job 21:33 clods of (the) wady.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Dust2 occurrences

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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