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# רָהַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7292

**act stormily** — used 4 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

act stormily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7292/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָהַב: vb. act stormily, boisterously, arrogantly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7292/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. act stormily, boisterously, arrogantly (Ecclus 13:8, NH id., Hiph. make proud (rare), 𝔗 רְהֵב be arrogant; Assyrian raʾâbu, storm at (angrily); Arabic رَهِبَ be alarmed, frightened; Syriac ܪܗܶܒ, Pe. Pt. trembling, hastening, Aph. terrify, hasten);— Impf. 3 mpl. יִרְהֲבוּ הַנַּעַר בַּוָּקֵן Is 3:5 (‖ וְנִגַּשׂ) storm against (𝔊 προσκόψει); Imv. רְהַב רֵעֶ(י)ךָ Pr 6:3 beset, importune, thy friend (PerlesAnal. 61 conj. רְהַן give surety, cf. NH הרהין). Pf. 3 mpl. sf. הִרְהִיבֻ֑נִי Ct 6:5, of eyes, dub.: alarm me Hi Ew Bu, awe me Gi, disturb, confuse me, Oettli DrIntr. 419 (446) Buhl; Impf. 2 ms. sf. תַּרְהִבֵנִי ψ 138:3 (subj. י׳), Buhl Bae Dr thou makest me proud, bold (Thes De Che denom. of רֹהַב).

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: importune (1); they (1); they will act insolently (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 138:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.138.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.138.3/#tree)

בְּי֣וֹם קָ֭רָֽאתִי וַֽתַּעֲנֵ֑נִי תַּרְהִבֵ֖נִי בְנַפְשִׁ֣י עֹֽז׃

*Word for word:* on.\[the\] day \[when\].I.called.out and you answered.me you made.me.bold in soul my strength

*JPS 1917:* In the day that I called, Thou didst answer me; Thou didst encourage me in my soul with strength.

[Proverbs 6:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.3/#tree)

עֲשֵׂ֨ה זֹ֥את אֵפ֪וֹא ׀ בְּנִ֡י וְֽהִנָּצֵ֗ל כִּ֘י בָ֤אתָ בְכַף־רֵעֶ֑ךָ לֵ֥ךְ הִ֝תְרַפֵּ֗ס וּרְהַ֥ב רֵעֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* do this then my.son my and deliver.yourself (dm) you.have.come in the.palm your.neighbor your go humble.yourself and importune neighbors your

*JPS 1917:* Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour; go, humble thyself, and urge thy neighbour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7292.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7292/): 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).