Word

רְעוּת

rᵉʻûwth · H7470 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

will

State in which a certain situation is acceptable in the eyes of a person or deity

Examples
Ezra 5:17 “And now, if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, as to whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem; and let the king send to us his decision concerning this matter.”
Ezra 7:18 “And whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do according to the will of your God.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֱלָהּGod, god 1
מֶלֶךְking 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁלַחput 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 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.

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.

Near synonyms 1 word

רָצוֹן râtsôwn · H7522 · acceptance, favor: Both words denote inner states of pleasure, will and desire, overlapping substantially ("pleasure, will" and "pleasure, will, delight, desire").

Semantic domains 2 entries

Names of People003001007: This Names of People code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's personal name “Reu”; this word's own occurrences describe the king's will or decision being sought, never a person so named.
Willing002001002028: Ezra 5:17 recounts the request that “the king send to us his decision concerning this matter.”

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רְעוּת rᵉʻûwth · H7469 · to pursue the wind, (female) friend, neighbor · 7×רְעוּתrᵉʻûwth · H7470

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7470. reuth [רְעוּ] noun feminine good pleasure, will; — construct רְעוּת of king Ezr…

H7470. reuth
[רְעוּ] noun feminine good pleasure, will; — construct רְעוּת of king Ezr 5:17, of God Ezr 7:18.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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