רָתַם
râtham · H7573 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to harness, to hitch
Action with which someone uses straps or metal rings to attach a large animal (like a horse) to a vehicle it will pull
ExamplesMicah 1:13 Harness the chariot to the team of horses, You inhabitant of Lachish— She was the beginning of sin To the daughter of Zion— Because in you were found The rebellious acts of Israel.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מֶרְכָּבָהchariot 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ רֶכֶשׁfast horse 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
- רָתַק râthaq · H7576 · to put in chains, to snap, to sever
- Both are verbs meaning "bind."
- עָמַר ʻâmar · H6014 · to bind, to treat as a slave
- עָמַר (ʻâmar, H6014) has dual senses ("bind sheaves" and "make merchandise of"), while רָתַם (râtham, H7573) is simply "bind" (hapax).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Bind002003001002
- Micah 1:13 commands, "Harness the chariot to the team of horses," using this word of yoking or binding animals together to a vehicle.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7573. ratham [רָתַם] verb bind, attach (compare Arabic thread bound to finger as…
[רָתַם] verb bind, attach (compare Arabic thread bound to finger as reminder); —
Qal Imperative masculine singular לָרֶכֶשׁ הַמֶּרְכָּבָה רְתֹם Mic 1:13.
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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