רֶכֶשׁ
rekesh · H7409 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- HorseMammals191 verses
Meanings
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fast horse
A fast horse, selectively bred for speed
Examples1 Kings 4:28 They also brought barley and straw for the war horses and baggage horses to the place where it was required, each deputy according to his duty.
Esther 8:10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on horses, riding on royal relay horses, offspring of racing mares.
Esther 8:14 The couriers, hurrying and speeded by the king’s command, left, riding on the royal relay horses; and the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲחַשְׁתָּרָןroyal 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָכַבto ride 2
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 2 words
- פֶּרֶד pered · H6505 · mule
- Hebrew near-synonym denoting mule, a hybrid riding animal; both רֶכֶשׁ and פֶּרֶד refer to swift riding beasts used for transportation, though פֶּרֶד is more commonly attested and specifically denotes the horse-donkey hybrid.
- סוּס çûwç · H5483 · horse
- Hebrew near-synonym for swift riding animal; both refer to domesticated beasts used for rapid transportation, though סוּס (horse) is the more common term for a swift mount.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- Esther 8:10 and 8:14 both describe couriers "riding on royal relay horses, offspring of racing mares," and Micah 1:13 commands "harness the chariot to the team of horses," directly attesting the sense of swift horses or steeds.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7409. rekesh רֶ֫כֶשׁ noun masculineEst 8:10 collective steeds (connection with √…
רֶ֫כֶשׁ noun masculineEst 8:10 collective steeds (connection with √ dubious); — absolute ׳ר Mic 1:13 +, רָ֑כֶשׁ 1Ki 5:8; — + סוּסִים 1Ki 5:8, harnessed to chariot Mic 1:13, ridden Est 8:10 ( + סוּסִים; defined as הָרֵמָּכִים בְּנֵי), Est 8:14.
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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