רַהַט
rahaṭ · H7298 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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watering trough
Receptacle, usually located near a well, where those who have drawn water can pour the water so that their animals can drink
ExamplesGenesis 30:38 He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the drinking troughs, that is, in the watering channels where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.
Genesis 30:41 Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the drinking troughs, so that they would mate by the rods;
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
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lock, tress
Meaning unsure; possibly: long locks of hair; associated with feminine beauty
ExamplesSong of Solomon 7:5 “Your head crowns you like Carmel, And the flowing hair of your head is like purple threads; The king is captivated by your tresses.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָלֵאto be full, to fill 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 5
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 2 words
- שֹׁקֶת shôqeth · H8268 · watering trough
- שֹׁקֶת is a common word for a watering trough or drinking vessel for animals (Gen 24:20, 30:38-41, Exod 2:16), overlapping semantically with רַהַט in the 'trough' sense as a container for water or feed
- אֵבוּס ʼêbûwç · H18 · crib, manger, feed trough
- אֵבוּס refers to a feeding trough or manger for livestock (Job 39:9, Prov 14:4, Isa 1:3), semantically overlapping with רַהַט in contexts where it denotes a trough or container for animals
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The word means a trough, directly illustrated by Jacob setting peeled rods "in the drinking troughs, that is, in the watering channels where the flocks came to drink" (Genesis 30:38, 41) and the daughters of the priest of Midian who "filled the troughs to water their father's flock" (Exodus 2:16).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7298. rahat I. [ר֫הַט] noun [masculine] trough (where water is collected ?); — for…
I. [ר֫הַט] noun [masculine] trough (where water is collected ?); — for watering cattle; — plural רְהָטִים Gen 30:38, Gen 30:41; Exo 2:16 (all J).
II. רהט (√ of two following; perhaps Aramaic רְהַט = רוּץ run, flow).
II. [רַ֫הַט] noun [masculine] dubious, Thes and most lock of hair (? from flowing down); — plural רְהָטִים Cant 7:6.
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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