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רַעֲנַן

raʻănan · H7487 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. flourishing

    Literally: green, flourishing; hence: state in which humans are exceedingly prosperous

    Examples

    Daniel 4:4 “I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and happy in my palace.

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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Near synonyms 1 word
רָטֹב râṭôb · H7373 · fresh, thriving
Hebrew adjective meaning 'fresh' or 'moist,' used to describe living, vigorous plant conditions similar to the flourishing state expressed by רַעֲנַן, though רָטֹב emphasizes moisture content while רַעֲנַן emphasizes the overall thriving appearance.
Contrasting words 2 words
יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh · H3001 · to dry up, to (cause to) dry up
Hebrew adjective/verb meaning 'dry' or 'withered,' the natural lexical opposite of flourishing; where רַעֲנַן describes vital, thriving vegetation, יָבֵשׁ describes dried-up, lifeless plants.
נָבֵל nâbêl · H5034 · to wither, to fade, to wear oneself out
Hebrew verb meaning 'to wither' or 'to fade,' expressing the opposite process to flourishing; where רַעֲנַן conveys thriving vitality, נָבֵל conveys decline and withering.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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Daniel 4:4 has Nebuchadnezzar recount, “I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and happy in my palace.”
Word family 2 words

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

רַעֲנָן raʻănân · H7488 · green, flourishing, spreading · 20×רַעֲנַןraʻănan · H7487
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7487. ra 'anan רַעֲנַן adjective flourishing (perhaps loan-word from Biblical Hebrew…
H7487. ra
'anan רַעֲנַן adjective flourishing (perhaps loan-word from Biblical Hebrew רַעֲנָן luxuriant, √ רען); — figurative of person Dan 4:1 (compare Biblical Hebrew Psa 92:15).

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

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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

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