[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%94/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [א](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/alef/)‎ / אֲרֻחָה‎

# אֲרֻחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H737

**meal** — used 6 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

meal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/737/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרֻחָה: n.f. meal, allowance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/737/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. meal, allowance (of food) abs. Je 40:5; cstr. אֲרֻחַת יָרָק Pr 15:17 a portion of herbs, i.e. a slender meal; elsewhere of allowance given to captive king Jehoiachin, א׳ תָּמִיד a continual allowance 2 K 25:30 = Je 52:34; אֲרֻחָתוֹ ib. = id.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a food allowance (3); his food (2); a portion (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/#tree)

ט֤וֹב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁ֑ם מִשּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good a.portion of.vegetable\[s\] and love \[is\].there more than.an.ox fattened and hatred \[is\].with it

*JPS 1917:* Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

[2 Kings 25:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.30/#tree)

וַאֲרֻחָת֗וֹ אֲרֻחַ֨ת תָּמִ֧יד נִתְּנָה־לּ֛וֹ מֵאֵ֥ת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ דְּבַר־י֣וֹם בְּיוֹמ֑וֹ כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֥י חַיָּֽו׃

*Word for word:* and his.food allowance a.food.allowance of.continuity it.was.given to him from with the king a.matter of.a.day in day its all the.days his.life his

*JPS 1917:* And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/737.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/737/): 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).