רַעֲנָן
raʻănân · H7488 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences
Meanings
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to grow luxuriant, to flourish
Process by which a plant or tree produces many branches and leaves
ExamplesDeuteronomy 12:2 “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you are going to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
1 Kings 14:23 For they, too, built for themselves high places, memorial stones, and Asherim on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
2 Kings 16:4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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Fresh or rich, literally green oil, meaning oil that is fresh and of excellent quality
ExamplesPsalm 92:10 But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כִּפָּהpalm branch 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֶרֶשׂbed 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 2 words
- רָטֹב râṭôb · H7373 · fresh, thriving
- They are distinct roots with overlapping senses of freshness and flourishing in plants.
- לַח lach · H3892 · fresh
- Both describe overlapping states of green freshness or moisture.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Deuteronomy 12:2 condemns idolatrous worship "under every leafy tree," and 1 Kings 14:23, 2 Kings 16:4, 17:10, and 2 Chronicles 28:4 all repeatedly describe "every green"/"luxuriant tree," richly and directly attesting the sense of a lush, flourishing growth stage.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7488. raanan רַעֲנָן adjective luxuriant, fresh; — masculine ׳ר Deu 12:2 +; feminine…
רַעֲנָן adjective luxuriant, fresh; — masculine ׳ר Deu 12:2 +; feminine רַעֲנָנָה Son 1:16; masculine plural רַעֲנַנִּים Psa 92:15; — luxuriant, of trees: בְּרוֺשׁ Hos 14:9, זַיִת Psalm 52:10 (both simile), Jer 11:16 (figurative); simile also, ר ׳כְּאֶזְרָח Psa 37:35 (but read ᵑ6 ᵐ5 הַלְּבָנוֺן כְּאֶרֶז and most); especially in phrase ר ׳כָּלעֵֿץ תַּחַת place of idolatrous rites, Deu 12:2; 1Ki 14:23; 2Ki 16:4 2Ch 28:4; 2Ki 17:10; Jer 2:20; Jer 3:6, Jer 3:13; Isa 57:5; Eze 6:13; ר ׳עַלעֵֿץ Jer 17:2 (si vera lectio); leaf Jer 17:8 (figurative); leafy couch Son 1:16; fresh, oil Psa 92:11; fresh, flourishing, person (figurative, as trees) Psa 92:15 (+ דְּשֵׁנִים).
I. רעע (√ of following; original meaning dubious).
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
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