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# רֶגַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7281

**a moment** — used 22 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

a moment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7281/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫גַע: n.m. moment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7281/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a moment (NH id.; 𝔗 רינעא Ec 9:12: prob. properly a movement, i.e. twinkling, of the eye; cf. momentum, i.e. movimentum);—abs. ר׳, רָ֑גַע Nu 16:21 +, pl. רְגָעִים;— ψ 30:6 ר׳ בְּאַפּוֹ a moment (passes) in his anger (opp. היים ברצונו); Is 54:7 בְּר׳ קָטֹן during a little moment. usually in adv. phrases:—(a) as adv. acc., (α) Ex 33:5 ר׳ אֶהָד for one moment, so ר׳ alone Is 54:8; repeated Je 18:7, 9 רֶגַע … רֶגַע at one moment … at another moment; (β) in a moment, suddenly, ψ 6:11 יָשׁוּבוּ יֵבשׁוּ רָ֑גַע, Je 4:20; Is 47:9; Jb 34:20. (b) בְּרֶגַע in a moment Jb 21:13 ובר׳ שְׁאוֹל יֵחַ֫תּוּ (of a quick and painless death; but see 34:20 ψ 73:19: Hoffm Buhl Beer Bu Du \[cf. 𝔊 ἐν ἀναπαύσει, 𝔗 בְּמַרְגּוֹעָא\] take רֶגַע (or read רְגֹעַ) as subst. \[√ II. רָגַע\] in tranquillity, of a peaceful death). So (c) בִּר׳ Nu 16:21 = 17:10 יַאֲכַלֶּה אֹתָם בְּרָ֑גַע, ψ 73:19. (d) בְּמוֹ ר׳ La 4:6. (e) עֲדֵי רָ֑גַע while a moment lasts Jb 20:5. (f) כִּמְעַט ר׳ like the littleness of a moment = for a little moment Is 26:20; Ezr 9:8. (g) pl. לִרְגָעִים by moments, at every moment, Is 27:3; Ez 26:16 וְהָֽרְדוּ ל׳ (so 32:10), Jb 7:18 (‖ לִבְקָרִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a moment (16); moments (4); of a moment (2).

## In the verses

[Job 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.18/#tree)

וַתִּפְקְדֶ֥נּוּ לִבְקָרִ֑ים לִ֝רְגָעִ֗ים תִּבְחָנֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* and you have.visited.him to mornings to moments you test.him

*JPS 1917:* And that Thou shouldest remember him every morning, and try him every moment?

[Job 20:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.5/#tree)

כִּ֤י רִנְנַ֣ת רְ֭שָׁעִים מִקָּר֑וֹב וְשִׂמְחַ֖ת חָנֵ֣ף עֲדֵי־רָֽגַע׃

*Word for word:* (dm).that \[the\].cry.of.joy of.wicked.\[people\] \[is\].from near and.\[the\] gladness of.\[the\].godless \[is\].until a.moment

*JPS 1917:* That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7281.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7281/): 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).