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# רֵיקָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7387

**emptily** — used 16 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

emptily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7387/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵיקָם: adv. emptily, vainly Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7387/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. emptily, vainly;— in empty condition, empty = with empty hands; c. vb. of sending Gn 31:42 (E), Dt 15:13 1 S 6:3 Jb 22:9; of going forth Ex 3:21, returning Ru 1:21; 3:17; = without an offering, לֹא יֵרָאוּ פָנַי ר׳ Ex 23:15 (E) = 34:20 (J), more fully Dt 16:16 (cf. \[פָּנֶה\] II. 2, ראה Niph. 1 b). in vain, without effect: c. שׁוּב 2 S 1:22 (poem), Is 55:11 Je 14:3 (but v. רֵיק 1), 50:9; prob. also צוֹרֲרִי ר׳ ψ 7:5 those who were my adversaries in vain (without success); הַבּוֹגְדִים ר׳ 25:3 that deal treacherously in vain (in both most without cause).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 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: empty (14); without cause (2).

## In the verses

[Job 22:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.9/#tree)

אַ֭לְמָנוֹת שִׁלַּ֣חְתָּ רֵיקָ֑ם וּזְרֹע֖וֹת יְתֹמִ֣ים יְדֻכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* widows you.have.sent.away empty and.\[the\] arms of.fatherless.ones it.has.been.crushed

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

[Psalms 25:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.25.3/#tree)

גַּ֣ם כָּל־קֹ֭וֶיךָ לֹ֣א יֵבֹ֑שׁוּ יֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ הַבּוֹגְדִ֥ים רֵיקָֽם׃

*Word for word:* also all \[those who\].wait.for.you not they.will.be.ashamed they.will.be.ashamed \[those who\].act.treacherously without.cause

*JPS 1917:* Yea, none that wait for Thee shall be ashamed; they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7387.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7387/): 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).