אֲרֻחָה
ʼăruchâh · H737 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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allowance, portion
A quantity of food that a person receives to live on for a specific period of time
Examples2 Kings 25:30 and as his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.
Proverbs 15:17 Better is a portion of vegetables where there is love, Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Jeremiah 40:5 As Jeremiah was still not going back, he said, “Go on back then to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go.” So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a ration and a gift, and let him go.
How it’s used In 4 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
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- תָּמִידalways 2
- הוּhis 2
- יָרָקvegetables 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוֹבgood 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 3 words
- לֶחֶם lechem · H3899 · bread, food, bread of the Presence
- Common Hebrew word for food/provisions; can denote regular sustenance or meals in general usage, overlapping with אֲרֻחָה's sense of victuals/provisions
- מָזוֹן mâzôwn · H4202 · food, provisions
- Hebrew term for food or provisions; used for sustenance given or consumed (Gen 45:23, Ps 78:25), semantically parallel to אֲרֻחָה as victuals/allowance
- מַאֲכָל maʼăkâl · H3978 · food
- Hebrew word for something eaten, food, or meal; overlaps with אֲרֻחָה's sense of provisions or victuals consumed
In the other Testament 3 words
- τροφή trophḗ · G5160 · food
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for food/sustenance provisions; used in contexts of regular food allowance or diet (e.g., Matt 3:4, 6:25, Acts 2:46)
- βρῶσις brōsis · G1035 · to eat, eating, a meal
- Greek term for food/meal, particularly in the sense of something consumed or provided as sustenance; semantically overlaps with the provision/allowance sense of אֲרֻחָה
- σιτόμετρον sitómetron · G4620 · a due amount of food rations
- Precise Greek equivalent for a measured allowance or ration of food (Luke 12:42); matches the 'allowance' sense of אֲרֻחָה specifically
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Quantity002001001046
- אֲרֻחָה denotes a fixed allowance or portion of food, the regular daily ration granted to Jehoiachin and mentioned elsewhere as a set quantity of provisions.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H737. aruchah אֲרֻחָה noun feminine meal, allowance (of food) absolute Jer 40:5;…
אֲרֻחָה noun feminine meal, allowance (of food) absolute Jer 40:5; construct יָרָק אֲרֻחַת Pro 15:17 a portion of herbs, i.e. a slender meal; elsewhere of allowance given to captive king Jehoiachin, ׳א תָּמִיד a continual allowance 2Ki 25:30 = Jer 52:34; אֲרֻחָתוֺ ib. = id.
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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