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# רֶגֶב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7263

**clod** — 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

clod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7263/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫גֶב: n.m. clod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7263/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. clod of earth;—pl. רְגָבִים יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ Jb 38:38 clods are joined together; cstr. רִגְבֵי נָ֑חַל 21:33 clods of (the) wady.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] clods (1); clods (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.38/#tree)

בְּצֶ֣קֶת עָ֭פָר לַמּוּצָ֑ק וּרְגָבִ֥ים יְדֻבָּֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* when flows \[the\].dust into (the) lump and.\[the\] clods they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

[Job 21:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.33/#tree)

מָֽתְקוּ־ל֗וֹ רִגְבֵ֫י נָ֥חַל וְ֭אַחֲרָיו כָּל־אָדָ֣ם יִמְשׁ֑וֹךְ וּ֝לְפָנָ֗יו אֵ֣ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* they.will.be.sweet to him \[the\].clods of.\[the\].wadi and after him every person he.will.follow and before face him there.\[is\].not number

*JPS 1917:* The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7263.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7263/): 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).