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# רָזַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7336

**be weighty** — 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

be weighty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7336/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָזַן: vb. be weighty, judicious, commanding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7336/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be weighty, judicious, commanding (Arabic رَزُنَ be weighty, grave, firm of judgment; NH רֹווֵן = BH, so רוזנים Ecclus 44:4);—only Pt. pl. as subst., rulers, potentates, ‖ מְלָכִים: רֹזְנִים Ju 5:3; Hb 1:10, רוֹ׳ ψ 2:2 Pr 8:15 31:4, ‖ שֹׁפְטֵי אֶרֶץ Is 40:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rulers (5); O rulers (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 8:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.15/#tree)

בִּ֭י מְלָכִ֣ים יִמְלֹ֑כוּ וְ֝רוֹזְנִ֗ים יְחֹ֣קְקוּ צֶֽדֶק׃

*Word for word:* by me kings they.reign and rulers they.enact righteousness

*JPS 1917:* By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

[Isaiah 40:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.23/#tree)

הַנּוֹתֵ֥ן רוֹזְנִ֖ים לְאָ֑יִן שֹׁ֥פְטֵי אֶ֖רֶץ כַּתֹּ֥הוּ עָשָֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].appoints rulers to nothing judges of.\[the\].earth like (the) nothingness he.makes

*JPS 1917:* That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7336.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7336/): 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).