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# רִיפֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7383

**stable** — 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

stable [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7383/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[f.\] dub.; some grain or fruit (such as was spread out to dry (2 S), and also pounded (Pr); 𝔙2 S as if drying barley-groats, 𝔊L παλάθας, cakes of preserved fruit, cf. preparation of ‘apricot-cheese’ WetzstZPV xiv. 2 NesMarg. 18, who cites also AlmkvistKl. Beitr. zur Lexicogr. des Vulg. Ar. Actes, 419);—pl. abs. רִפוֹת 2 S 17:19, רִיפוֹת Pr 27:22.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: grain(s) (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.22/#tree)

אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־אֶת־הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת בַּֽעֱלִ֑י לֹא־תָס֥וּר מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* if you.will.pound (et) the fool in (the) mortar among the grain(s) with the pestle not it.will.depart from with him foolishness his

*JPS 1917:* Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

[2 Samuel 17:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.19/#tree)

וַתִּקַּ֣ח הָאִשָּׁ֗ה וַתִּפְרֹ֤שׂ אֶת־הַמָּסָךְ֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הַבְּאֵ֔ר וַתִּשְׁטַ֥ח עָלָ֖יו הָֽרִפ֑וֹת וְלֹ֥א נוֹדַ֖ע דָּבָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and she.took the woman and she.spread (et) the covering over the.face of the.well and she.spread.out on it the grain(s) and not it.was.known anything

*JPS 1917:* And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7383.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7383/): 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).