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# רַחַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7357

**Raham** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Raham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7357/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַ֫חַם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7357/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (girl(-like)?);—in Judah, 1 Ch 2:44; Ραμεε, A Ραεμ῾, 𝔊L Ρααμ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Raham (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.44/#tree)

וְשֶׁ֣מַע הוֹלִ֔יד אֶת־רַ֖חַם אֲבִ֣י יָרְקֳעָ֑ם וְרֶ֖קֶם הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־שַׁמָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Shema he.fathered (et) Raham the.father of.Jorkeam and Rekem he.fathered (et) Shammai

*JPS 1917:* And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begot Shammai.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7357.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7357/): 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).