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# רַחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7371

**winnowing-shovel** — 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

winnowing-shovel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7371/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַ֫חַת: winnowing-shovel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7371/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] winnowing-shovel, or the like (√ unknown; Thes from רוח = ventilabrum, cf. NöZMG xl (1886), 728; Wetzst in De Is (2), 709 from רחה = رَخُوَ be soft, loose, friable, etc., cf. Köii. 1, 177; NH = BH, Arabic رَخْتٌ is prob. loan-wd. Nöl.c.);—זֹרֶה בָר׳ וּבַמִּזְרֶה Is 30:24.

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 30:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.24/#tree)

וְהָאֲלָפִ֣ים וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים עֹֽבְדֵי֙ הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה בְּלִ֥יל חָמִ֖יץ יֹאכֵ֑לוּ אֲשֶׁר־זֹרֶ֥ה בָרַ֖חַת וּבַמִּזְרֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the cattle(s) and the.male donkeys \[which\].till (of).the ground fodder salted they.will.eat which \[someone.has.been\].winnowing with the shovel and with the pitchfork

*JPS 1917:* The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7371.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7371/): 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).