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# רְוָחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7309

**respite** — 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

respite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7309/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְוָחָה: n.f. respite, relief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7309/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. respite, relief;—abs. ר׳ Ex 8:11 (J); sf. רַוְחָתִי La 3:56 (Ew Löhr BuComm. צַוְחָתִי my outcry; then del. שַׁוְעָתִי as gloss.); read לָֽרְוָחָה also for MT לָֽרְוָיָה ψ 66:12 (v. sub רוה).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: relief (1); respite (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:56](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.56/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.56/#tree)

קוֹלִ֖י שָׁמָ֑עְתָּ אַל־תַּעְלֵ֧ם אָזְנְךָ֛ לְרַוְחָתִ֖י לְשַׁוְעָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* voice my you.heard do.not hide ear your to relief my to my.cry for.help

*JPS 1917:* Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

[Exodus 8:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.8.11/#tree)

וַיַּ֣רְא פַּרְעֹ֗ה כִּ֤י הָֽיְתָה֙ הָֽרְוָחָ֔ה וְהַכְבֵּד֙ אֶת־לִבּ֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א שָׁמַ֖ע אֲלֵהֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.saw Pharaoh (dm).that it.had.come the respite and he.made.unresponsive (et) heart his and not he.listened to them just as he.had.said Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7309.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7309/): 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).