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# רָחֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7353

**ewe** — 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

ewe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7353/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָחֵל: n.f. ewe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7353/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Is 53:7 ewe;—abs. ר׳ Is 53:7; (in sim., ‖ שֶׂה); pl. רְחֵלִים Gn 32:15 (E; + עִזִּים, אֵילִים), Ct 6:6 (in sim.); sf. רְחֵלֶיךָ וְעִזֶּיךָ Gn 31:38 (E).

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 (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: ewes (3); a ewe (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 32:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.15/#tree)

עִזִּ֣ים מָאתַ֔יִם וּתְיָשִׁ֖ים עֶשְׂרִ֑ים רְחֵלִ֥ים מָאתַ֖יִם וְאֵילִ֥ים עֶשְׂרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* female.goats two.hundred and male.goats twenty ewes two.hundred and rams twenty

*JPS 1917:* two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

[Genesis 31:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.38/#tree)

זֶה֩ עֶשְׂרִ֨ים שָׁנָ֤ה אָנֹכִי֙ עִמָּ֔ךְ רְחֵלֶ֥יךָ וְעִזֶּ֖יךָ לֹ֣א שִׁכֵּ֑לוּ וְאֵילֵ֥י צֹאנְךָ֖ לֹ֥א אָכָֽלְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* this twenty year\[s\] I \[have been\].with.you ewes your and your.female goats not they.have.miscarried and the.rams your.flock your not I.have.eaten

*JPS 1917:* These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7353.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7353/): 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).