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# רָחָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7360

**carrion-vulture** — used 2 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

carrion-vulture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7360/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָחָם: carrion-vulture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7360/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] carrion-vulture;—abs. הָר׳ Lv 11:18 (Sam. רחמה; so perhaps read) = הָרָחָ֫מָה ‖ Dt 14:17 (on accent v. Dr; cf. Ges§ 90f).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: Egyptian (1); vulture (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.18/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת וְאֶת־הַקָּאָ֖ת וְאֶת־הָרָחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.barn owl and (et) the.desert owl and (et) the.Egyptian vulture

*JPS 1917:* and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;

[Deuteronomy 14:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.17/#tree)

וְהַקָּאָ֥ת וְאֶֽת־הָרָחָ֖מָה וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and the.desert owl and (et) the Egyptian vulture and (et) the cormorant

*JPS 1917:* and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7360.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7360/): 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).