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# רַחֲמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7361

**womb** — used 2 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

womb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7361/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫חֶם: n.m. womb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7361/#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: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a womb (1); two wombs (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.30/#tree)

הֲלֹ֨א יִמְצְא֜וּ יְחַלְּק֣וּ שָׁלָ֗ל רַ֤חַם רַחֲמָתַ֙יִם֙ לְרֹ֣אשׁ גֶּ֔בֶר שְׁלַ֤ל צְבָעִים֙ לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔א שְׁלַ֥ל צְבָעִ֖ים רִקְמָ֑ה צֶ֥בַע רִקְמָתַ֖יִם לְצַוְּארֵ֥י שָׁלָֽל׃

*Word for word:* ? not are.they.finding are.they.dividing.up? plunder a.womb two.wombs for.\[the\] head of.a.man plunder of.colored.cloth(s) for Sisera plunder of.colored.cloth(s) multicolored.material colored.cloth multicolored.material(s) for.\[the\] necks of.plunder

*JPS 1917:* 'Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments of embroidery, two dyed garments of broidery for the neck of every spoiler?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7361.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7361/): 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).