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# רֹךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7391

**tender** — 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

tender [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7391/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֹךְ: tenderness, delicacy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7391/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] tenderness, delicacy;—of delicately-nurtured woman, מֵהִתְעַנֵּג וּמֵרֹךְ Dt 28:56.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: gentleness (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:56](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.56/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.56/#tree)

הָרַכָּ֨ה בְךָ֜ וְהָעֲנֻגָּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹא־נִסְּתָ֤ה כַף־רַגְלָהּ֙ הַצֵּ֣ג עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ מֵהִתְעַנֵּ֖ג וּמֵרֹ֑ךְ תֵּרַ֤ע עֵינָהּ֙ בְּאִ֣ישׁ חֵיקָ֔הּ וּבִבְנָ֖הּ וּבְבִתָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* the.gentle \[woman\] among you and the.delicate \[woman\] who not she.has.attempted the.sole her.foot her to.place on the ground because was.delicate and from gentleness it.will.be.evil eye her on the.husband her.bosom her and on son her and on daughter her

*JPS 1917:* The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7391.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7391/): 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).