רֶכֶס
rekeç · H7406 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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rugged ground
Exact meaning unsure; probably: a location where the ground is not level and hard to travel on
ExamplesIsaiah 40:4 “Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the uneven ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- מִישׁוֹר mîyshôwr · H4334 · plain, plateau, tableland
- Hebrew noun meaning 'level ground, plain' -- the lexical opposite of rough/uneven terrain; standard antonym pair in prophetic texts contrasting mountainous/rough terrain with level places
In the other Testament 1 word
- τραχύς trachýs · G5138 · rough
- Greek adjective meaning 'rough, uneven' (used of terrain in Luke 3:5); standard translation equivalent for Hebrew רֶכֶס 'rough place' in Isaiah 40:4 LXX context
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- Isaiah 40:4 speaks of "the rugged terrain" becoming a broad valley, the sole occurrence attesting the sense of rough, uneven ground.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7406. rekes [רֶ֫כֶס] noun [masculine] dubious; perhaps roughness (of ground; ? literally…
[רֶ֫כֶס] noun [masculine] dubious; perhaps roughness (of ground; ? literally binding, knot); or bound up, impeded, i.e. the impassable; or mountain-chain (see Thes); — plural הָֽרְכָסִים Isa 40:4 (|| הֶעָקֹכ; opposed to בִּקְעָה).
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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