Word

רָתַח

râthach · H7570 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to cause to boil

Causative action by which humans bring water to a temperature in which it starts bubbling

Examples
Ezekiel 24:5 “Take the choicest of the flock, And also stack wood under the pot. Make it boil vigorously. Also boil its bones in it.”
to be in turmoil

Literally: (one's) inner parts are boiling; hence: process by which humans go through a phase of strong grief and distress

Examples
Job 30:27 “I am seething within and cannot rest; Days of misery confront me.
to cause to churn

Causative action by which a large animal causes water to start bubbling as if it is boiling

Examples
Job 41:31 “He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

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

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מֵעֶהbowels 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מְצוֹלָהdepths, deep 1
רֶתַחwell 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as+ סִירthorns 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 1 word

כָּמַר kâmar · H3648 · to be hot, to be kindled: Both lexemes share the "Hot" domain and have heat-related senses ("be kindled" vs. "boil"), which suggests genuine semantic overlap in the physical heat/burning register.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Hot002001001034: Ezekiel 24:5 commands, "Make it boil vigorously. Also boil its bones in it," directly attesting the heated, boiling sense this word denotes.
Grieve002001002013: Job 30:27 laments, "I am seething within and cannot rest; days of misery confront me," using this word figuratively of inner turmoil and distress.
Unsteady002001001067: Job 30:27's inward "seething" that leaves the sufferer unable to rest reflects the agitated, churning motion this word can carry beyond its literal boiling sense. (The sampled citation at Job 41:23 does not itself show this word's sense in the given excerpt.)

Word family 2 words

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

רָתַחrâthach · H7570רֶתַח rethach · H7571 · well · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7570. rathach [רָתַח] verb boil (Late Hebrew id.; Ecclus 43:3Hiph`il make hot; Aramaic…

H7570. rathach
[רָתַח] verb boil (Late Hebrew id.; Ecclus 43:3Hiph`il make hot; Aramaic רְתַח, boil); —
Pi`el Imperative masculine singular רַתַּח causative Eze 24:5 cause to boil, bring to boiling, with accusative of thing.
Pu`al Perfect3plural רֻתְּחוּ Job 30:27 my bowels have been made to boil without quiet (figurative of violent emotion).
Hiph`il Imperfect3masculine singular מְצוּלָה כַּסּיר יַרְתִּיחַ Job 41:23 he (the crocodile) maketh the depth boil like the pot..

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Hot1 occurrence Unsteady1 occurrence Grieve1 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