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# רֵחַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7347

**compassionate** — used 5 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

compassionate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7347/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵחֶה: du. mill [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7347/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\], only du. רֵחַיִם (hand-)mill (prob. = 8);—ר׳ abs., common household utensil, turned by maids, Ex 11:5 (הָרֵחָ֑יִם; J), female slaves Is 47:2 (c. טָחַן, q.v.); טָחַן בָּר׳ Nu 11:8 (J); ר׳ וָרָ֑כֶב Dt 24:6 (v. רכב); קוֹל ר׳ as sound of family life Je 25:10.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a hand-mill (2); hand-mill (2); of a hand-mill (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 24:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.6/#tree)

לֹא־יַחֲבֹ֥ל רֵחַ֖יִם וָרָ֑כֶב כִּי־נֶ֖פֶשׁ ה֥וּא חֹבֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* not anyone.will.take.as.pledge a.hand-mill and an.upper.millstone (dm) a.life it \[is\].taking.as.pledge

*JPS 1917:* No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

[Isaiah 47:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/#tree)

קְחִ֥י רֵחַ֖יִם וְטַ֣חֲנִי קָ֑מַח גַּלִּ֨י צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ חֶשְׂפִּי־שֹׁ֛בֶל גַּלִּי־שׁ֖וֹק עִבְרִ֥י נְהָרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* take a.hand-mill and grind flour uncover veil your strip.off a.skirt uncover a.leg pass.through rivers

*JPS 1917:* Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7347.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7347/): 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).