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# רֶחֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7358

**womb** — used 30 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

womb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7358/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫חֶם: n.m. womb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7358/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ho 9:14 womb (f. Je 20:17, unless הֲרַת a noun, cf. AlbrZAW xvi. 81 SS);—abs. ר׳ Gn 20:18 +, רַ֫חַם Ju 5:30, רָ֑חֶם Je 20:17 +, רָ֑חַם Gn 49:25 +; cstr. רֶ֫חֶם Nu 12:12 Jb 3:11; sf. רַחְמָהּ Gn 29:31 +, רַחְמָהֿ Je 20:17 (Ges§ 91e; \>f. abs. Köii. 1, 159); du. רַחֲמָתַיִם Ju 5:30;— womb, Gn 49:25 (J) Je 20:17; Jb 24:20; מֵרחם i.e. from birth Je 20:17 ψ 22:11; 58:4; Jb 3:11 (מִנִּי), Is 46:3, fig. ψ 110:3; בָּרֶחֶם Jb 31:15; יצא מֵר׳ go forth from womb in birth Je 1:5; 20:18 Jb 38:8, cf. 10:18; מֵר׳ אֵם Nu 12:12 (E); פתח ר׳ open the womb, in order to childbirth Gn 29:31; 30:22 (JE); כָּל־פֶּטֶר רחם all that first opens womb (of men and animals) Ex 13:12, 15; 34:19 (J) Nu 18:15 (P) Ez 20:26; פטר ר׳ Nu 3:12 (P), פִּטְרַת כל ר׳ Nu 8:16; פטר כל ר׳ Ex 13:2 (P); on the other hand, ר׳ מַשְׁכִּיל Ho 9:14 miscarrying womb; עֹצֶר ר׳ Pr 30:16 restraint (i.e. barrenness) of womb (so ψ 107:36 PerlesAnal. 85); עָצַר בְּעַד ר׳ (of God) Gn 20:18 (E); סָגַר (בְּעַר) ר׳ 1 S 1:5, 6, preventing childbirth. womb-man, woman-slave: רַחַם רַחֲמָהַיִם Ju 5:30 a woman, two women.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: womb (19); of a womb (7); \[the\] womb (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.4/#tree)

זֹ֣רוּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים מֵרָ֑חֶם תָּע֥וּ מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן דֹּבְרֵ֥י כָזָֽב׃

*Word for word:* they.turn.aside wicked.\[people\] from.\[the\] womb they.go.astray from.\[the\] belly \[those.who\].speak (of).falsehood

*JPS 1917:* The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.

[Job 3:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.11/#tree)

לָ֤מָּה לֹּ֣א מֵרֶ֣חֶם אָמ֑וּת מִבֶּ֖טֶן יָצָ֣אתִי וְאֶגְוָֽע׃

*Word for word:* why? not from.\[the\] womb did.I.die from.\[the\] belly I.came.forth and did.I.expire?

*JPS 1917:* Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7358/): 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).