רְחִיט
rᵉchîyṭ · H7351 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Crossbeam, rafterRoof, housetop9 verses
Meanings
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beam, rafter
Length of wood, supporting the roof of a building
ExamplesSong of Solomon 1:17 “The beams of our house are cedars, Our rafters, junipers.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נוּour 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בְּרוֹתjuniper 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
- קוֹרָה qôwrâh · H6982 · log, beam, rafter
- קוֹרָה refers to a wooden beam or rafter used in construction, particularly roof construction, and is essentially interchangeable with רְחִיט in architectural terminology for structural roof members.
In the other Testament 1 word
- δοκός dokós · G1385 · beam
- δοκός is the standard Greek term for a wooden beam or rafter in construction, serving as the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew רְחִיט in architectural contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Constructions001003002
- The word means a rafter, directly illustrated by the lovers' house described, "the beams of our house are cedars, our rafters, junipers" (Song of Solomon 1:17).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7351. rahit [רָהִיט] noun masculine collective rafters? boards? (as strips running…
[רָהִיט] noun masculine collective rafters? boards? (as strips running between beams ? so Bu conjecture; compare Syriac boards (?) , Nö in Bu); — suffix רָהִיטֵנוּ Son 1:17 Qr (Kt רחיטנו; Manuscripts ׳רַח Baerp. 46 Köii. 1, 149), || קִרוֺת.
רוֺב see רֹב below רבב. [רוּב] see ריב.
רחיטנו Son 1:17 Kt, see [רָחִיט] below רהט.
רֵחַיִם see רחה. above
רחל (√ of following; meaning ?; compare Late Hebrew רָחֵל (plural וִֺ֯ת יִ֯ם,), Arabic , , Aramaic רַחְלָא, all ewe; compare perhaps Assyrian la—ru (transposed; see on רֶגֶל)).
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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