רֶפֶשׁ
rephesh · H7516 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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mud, dirt
Wet soil; tossed up by the sea; regarded as a valueless substance
ExamplesIsaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the tossing sea, For it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up refuse and mud.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּרַשׁto drive out, to expel 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
- יָוֵן yâvên · H3121 · mud
- Both lexemes genuinely denote the same substance (mire/mud), making them true near-synonyms capable of substituting for each other in sense.
- טִיט ṭîyṭ · H2916 · mud, dirt, mire
- Both denote wet, muddy substances such as mire, mud or clay.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dust001002005005
- The sole occurrence, Isaiah 57:20, describes the wicked as "like the tossing sea" whose "waters toss up refuse and mud," directly attesting the sense of stirred-up mire or sediment.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7516. rephesh רֶ֫פֶשׁ noun [masculine] mire; — Isa 57:20 (+ טִיט).
רֶ֫פֶשׁ noun [masculine] mire; — Isa 57:20 (+ טִיט).
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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