רָחַשׁ
râchash · H7370 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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Literally: (one's) heart is astir with words; hence: process by which the human mind is busy thinking about what to say ((one's) mind is full of thoughts)
ExamplesPsalm 45:1 My heart is moved with a good theme; I address my verses to the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 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
- הָגָה hâgâh · H1897 · to remove, to produce a sound, to growl
- הָגָה (hāḡâ) shares the sense of mental composition/utterance with רָחַשׁ; both can describe the production of thoughts/words, though הָגָה emphasizes meditation or murmuring while רָחַשׁ in Psalm 45:2 specifically denotes the composing/inditing of speech
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Think002004002013
- The word means to indite, that is, to compose or express through the stirring of the heart, reflected in the psalm's opening declaration, "my heart is astir with a pleasing theme" (Psalm 45:1); the sampled citation's translation excerpt shows the following verse's praise of the king rather than this specific opening line.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7370. rachash רָחַשׁ verb keep moving, stir (Late Hebrew stir, move, especially of lips…
רָחַשׁ verb keep moving, stir (Late Hebrew stir, move, especially of lips in speech, also, in explanation of מרחשׁת, of stewing, boiling; Aramaic רְחֵישׁ, , , creep, move, flutter, reptile); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ר טוֺב דָּבָר לִבִּי Psa 45:2 is astir.
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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