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# רְחוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7348

**Rehum** — 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

Rehum [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7348/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְחוּם: pr. 3a [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7348/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. m. (compassion, or softness, gentleness?);—post-exilic name: with Zerub.: רְחוּם Ezr 2:2, A Ιρεουμʼ, 𝔊L Ναουμ (= נְחוּם ‖ Ne 7:7). priest, רְחֻם Ne 12:3 Ρεουμ (= חָרִם v 15, cf. 7:42 = Ezr 2:39, Ezr 10:21, v. חָרִם 3a). רְחוּם, with Neh.: Levite Ne 3:17, Βασουθ, א A 𝔊L Ραουμ. Ne 10:26, Ρα\[ε\]ουμ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rehum (4).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.26/#tree)

רְח֥וּם חֲשַׁבְנָ֖ה מַעֲשֵׂיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Rehum Hashabnah Maaseiah

*JPS 1917:* Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah;

[Nehemiah 12:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.3/#tree)

שְׁכַנְיָ֥ה רְחֻ֖ם מְרֵמֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* Shecaniah Rehum Meremoth

*JPS 1917:* Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7348.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7348/): 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).