Word

רֶקֶם

Reqem · H7552 · Hebrew · proper noun · 6 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Rekemfirst named in Numbers 31:82 verses
Rekemfirst named in 1 Chronicles 2:432 verses
Rakemfirst named in 1 Chronicles 7:161 verse

Place

Rekemfirst named in Joshua 18:271 verse

Meanings

Rekem

Town; territory of Benjamin

Examples
Joshua 18:27 Rekem, Irpeel, and Taralah,
Rekem

A king of Midian

Examples
Numbers 31:8 They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of those killed: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
Joshua 13:21 even all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the leaders of Sihon, who lived in the land.
Rekem

Man; son of Hebron; descendant of Caleb; tribe of Judah

Examples
1 Chronicles 2:43 The sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
1 Chronicles 2:44 Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai.
Rekem

Man; son of Peresh; tribe of Manasseh

Examples
1 Chronicles 7:16 Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh; the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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 2 groups

מֶלֶךְking 1
נָשִׂיאchief 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָלַדto bear 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Names of Locations003001010: Rekem is listed among the towns allotted to Benjamin in Joshua 18:27 ("Rekem, Irpeel, and Taralah"), attesting its use as a place name.
Names of People003001007: Rekem is one of the five kings of Midian killed with Balaam in Numbers 31:8 and Joshua 13:21, and it also names a descendant of Caleb in 1 Chronicles 2:43-44, attesting its use as a personal name.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7552. Reqem רֶ֫קֶם proper name 1. masculine a. a king of Midian Num 31:8 (Ροκομ), Jos…

H7552. Reqem
רֶ֫קֶם proper name
1. masculine a. a king of Midian Num 31:8 (Ροκομ), Jos 13:21 (Ροβοκ, A Ροκομ, ᵐ5 Οροκομ).
b. a 'son' of Hebron 1Ch 2:43-44, Ρεκομ, Ροκομ, Ρωκημ.
c. name in Gilead 1Ch 7:16, ᵐ5L Ρακαμ.
2. location in Benjamin, Jos 18:27, Νακαν, A ᵐ5L Ρεκεμ[ν].

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of People5 occurrences Names of Locations1 occurrence

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