רָתַק
râthaq · H7576 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to put in chains
Causative action by which humans tie (part of) the body of (other) humans or animals with a chain in order to keep them under control
ExamplesNahum 3:10 Yet she became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her small children were smashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with shackles.
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to snap, to sever
Process by which something like a cord or rope suddenly breaks in two
ExamplesEcclesiastes 12:6 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the spring is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;
How it’s used In 2 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גָּדוֹלgreat, large 1
- חֶבֶלcord, rope, region 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ בin/on/with 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 5 words
- רָתַם râtham · H7573 · to harness, to hitch
- Both are verbs meaning "bind."
- אָסַר ʼâçar · H631 · to tie, to bind, to harness
- Both describe the action of tying or binding.
- עָקַד ʻâqad · H6123 · to bind
- Both denote binding.
- עָנַד ʻânad · H6029 · to bind on
- Both denote the action of binding or tying.
- קָשַׁר qâshar · H7194 · to be joined together, to be combined, to put on (ornaments)
- Both are verbs of binding and can substitute for each other in the sense of fastening or tying.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Bind002003001002
- Nahum 3:10 describes Nineveh's great men "bound with shackles," directly attesting the binding sense this word denotes.
- Non-Whole002003001021
- Ecclesiastes 12:6 pictures the "silver cord" of life coming unbound and "broken," using this word's binding sense in reverse, of a fastening giving way and the whole coming apart.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7576. rathaq [רָתַק] verb bind (Arabic close up and repair, sew up; Talmud רִיתְקָא…
[רָתַק] verb bind (Arabic close up and repair, sew up; Talmud רִיתְקָא fenced enclosure); —
Pu`al Perfect3plural בַזִּקִּים רֻתְּקוּ Nah 3:10 her great ones were bound with fetters
Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular יֵרָתֵק Ecc 12:6 Qr (ירחק Kt), from context = be snapped, broken; read probably יִנָּתֵק (Pfannkuche Thes and modern).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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