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# רִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7388

**slimy juice** — 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

slimy juice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7388/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִיר²: n.m. slimy juice, spittle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7388/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. slimy juice, spittle;—cstr. בְּרִיר חַלָּמוּת Jb 6:6 in the juice of ח׳ (al. slime of yolk, i.e. white of egg); sf. רִירוֹ 1 S 21:14 his spittle.

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

## In the verses

[Job 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.6/#tree)

הֲיֵאָכֵ֣ל תָּ֭פֵל מִבְּלִי־מֶ֑לַח אִם־יֶשׁ־טַ֝֗עַם בְּרִ֣יר חַלָּמֽוּת׃

*Word for word:* is it.eaten? tasteless.\[food\] from not salt or? \[is\].there taste in.\[the\] slime of.purslane

*JPS 1917:* Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?

[1 Samuel 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.14/#tree)

וַיְשַׁנּ֤וֹ אֶת־טַעְמוֹ֙ בְּעֵ֣ינֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּתְהֹלֵ֖ל בְּיָדָ֑ם וַיְתָיו֙ עַל־דַּלְת֣וֹת הַשַּׁ֔עַר וַיּ֥וֹרֶד רִיר֖וֹ אֶל־זְקָנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he changed.it (et) sense his in eyes their and he.acted.like.a.madman in hand their and he.made.marks on the.doors of the.gate and he.made.to.flow.down spittle his to beard his

*JPS 1917:* And he changed his demeanour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7388.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7388/): 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).