אֹרְחָה
ʼôrᵉchâh · H736 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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caravan
Group of travelling merchants
ExamplesGenesis 37:25 Then they sat down to eat a meal. But as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying labdanum resin, balsam, and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.
Isaiah 21:13 The pronouncement about Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, You caravans of Dedanites.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דְּדָנִיםDedanite 1
- יִשְׁמָעֵאלִיIshmaelite 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 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
- גְּדוּד gᵉdûwd · H1416 · band of raiders, troops, ridge
- גְּדוּד refers to a band or troop of people, often in military contexts but also used for groups of raiders or travelling bands. While גְּדוּד more commonly implies military or raiding bands, it overlaps semantically with אֹרְחָה in denoting organized groups of people moving together, though אֹרְחָה is more specifically associated with commercial/trading caravans.
In the other Testament 1 word
- συνοδία synodía · G4923 · a group of travellers, a group of those travelling with
- Greek συνοδία (synodía) is the standard NT term for a travelling company or caravan, precisely matching the semantic field of אֹרְחָה (ʼôrᵉchâh, H736) אֹרְחָה which denotes a band or company of travellers, particularly in caravans (cf. Job 6:19; Isa 21:13). Both terms refer to organized groups journeying together.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Groups001001003004
- אֹרְחָה names a traveling company or caravan, as in the caravan of Ishmaelites carrying spices to Egypt that purchased Joseph.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H736. orechah [אֹרְחָה] noun feminine travelling company, caravan (strictly Participle of…
[אֹרְחָה] noun feminine travelling company, caravan (strictly Participle of אָרַח), construct אֹרְחַת Gen 37:25; plural construct אֹרְחוֺת Isa 21:13; compare also below אֹרַח, 4
אֲרִיאֵיל אֲרִיאֵל, etc., see I. & II. ארה.
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
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