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# רָטֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7372

**be moist** — 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

be moist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7372/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָטֵב: vb. be moist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7372/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be moist (NH id.; Assyrian raṭâbu, ii. moisten; Arabic رَطُبَ / رَطِبَ, Ethiopic ረጥበ Aramaic רְטַב, ܪܛܶܒ, all be moist);— Impf. 3 ms. מִזֶּרֶם הָרִים יִרְטָ֑בוּ Jb 24:8.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are wet (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.8/#tree)

מִזֶּ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים יִרְטָ֑בוּ וּֽמִבְּלִ֥י מַ֝חְסֶ֗ה חִבְּקוּ־צֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] rainstorm of.\[the\].mountains they.are.wet and from not shelter they.embrace \[the\].rock

*JPS 1917:* They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7372.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7372/): 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).