רָחֵל
râchêl · H7353 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- Sheep, lambMammals319 verses
Meanings
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a ewe
A female sheep, associated with submissiveness
ExamplesGenesis 31:38 “For these twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
Genesis 32:14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Song of Solomon 6:6 “Your teeth are like a flock of ewes That have come up from their watering place, All of which bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young.
How it’s used In 5 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
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 4 groups
- מֵאָהhundred 1
- עָלָהto go up 1
- תָּאַםto bear twins 1
- הֶםthem 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁכֹלbereaved of children 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵדֶרflock 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- πρόβατον próbaton · G4263 · sheep, a person who is like a sheep
- πρόβατον (próbaton, G4263) πρόβατον is the standard Greek rendering of רָחֵל (râchêl, H7353) רָחֵל in LXX contexts where the Hebrew denotes the animal 'ewe/sheep' literally, both terms referring to sheep as domesticated quadrupeds.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- The word means an ewe, directly illustrated by Jacob's report that "your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried" (Genesis 31:38) and the bride's teeth compared to "a flock of ewes...all of which bear twins" (Song of Solomon 6:6).
- Names of People003001007
- This domain is shared with the identically spelled personal name Rachel (רָחֵל (Râchêl, H7354)); it is not independently illustrated by this word's own sampled citations, which all concern literal ewes.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7353. rachel I. רָחֵל noun feminineIsa 53:7 ewe; — absolute ׳ר Isa 53:7 (in simile, ||…
I. רָחֵל noun feminineIsa 53:7 ewe; — absolute ׳ר Isa 53:7 (in simile, || שֶׂה); plural רְחֵלִים Gen 32:15 (E; + אֵילִים עִזִּים,), Son 6:6 (in simile); suffix וְעִזֶּיךָ רְחֵלֶיךָ Gen 31:38 (E).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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