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# אֹרְחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H736

**travelling company** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

travelling company [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/736/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹרְחָה: n.f. travelling company, caravan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/736/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. travelling company, caravan (strictly Pt. of אָרַח), cstr. אֹרְחַת Gn 37:25; pl. cstr. אֹרְחוֹת Is 21:13; cf. also sub אֹרַח, 4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: O caravans (1); a caravan (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 21:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.13/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א בַּעְרָ֑ב בַּיַּ֤עַר בַּעְרַב֙ תָּלִ֔ינוּ אֹֽרְח֖וֹת דְּדָנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].oracle on Arabia in the thicket\[s\] in Arabia you.will.lodge O.caravans of.Dedanites

*JPS 1917:* The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

[Genesis 37:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.25/#tree)

וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֮ לֶֽאֱכָל־לֶחֶם֒ וַיִּשְׂא֤וּ עֵֽינֵיהֶם֙ וַיִּרְא֔וּ וְהִנֵּה֙ אֹרְחַ֣ת יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים בָּאָ֖ה מִגִּלְעָ֑ד וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣ם נֹֽשְׂאִ֗ים נְכֹאת֙ וּצְרִ֣י וָלֹ֔ט הוֹלְכִ֖ים לְהוֹרִ֥יד מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.sat.down to eat bread and they.lifted.up eyes their and they.saw and there! a.caravan of.Ishmaelites \[was\].coming from Gilead and camels their \[were\].carrying spice and balm and myrrh \[they.were\].traveling to take.\[them\].down to Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/736.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/736/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).