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# רֵכָבִי

Biblical Hebrew

**Rekah** — used 4 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

Rekah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5db_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵכָבִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5db_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of רֵכָב 1, only pl. הָרֵכָבִים as subst., in בֵּית הָר׳ Je 35:2, 3, 18, בְּנֵי בֵית־הָר׳ v 5, Αρχαβειν, Ραχαβειν, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the Rechabites (4).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 35:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.5/#tree)

וָאֶתֵּ֞ן לִפְנֵ֣י ׀ בְּנֵ֣י בֵית־הָרֵכָבִ֗ים גְּבִעִ֛ים מְלֵאִ֥ים יַ֖יִן וְכֹס֑וֹת וָאֹמַ֥ר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם שְׁתוּ־יָֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* and I.set before the.sons of.the.house of the.Rechabites bowls full wine and cups and I.said to them drink wine

*JPS 1917:* and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites goblets full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them: 'Drink ye wine.'

[Jeremiah 35:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.35.2/#tree)

הָלוֹךְ֮ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית הָרֵכָבִים֒ וְדִבַּרְתָּ֣ אוֹתָ֔ם וַהֲבִֽאוֹתָם֙ בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־אַחַ֖ת הַלְּשָׁכ֑וֹת וְהִשְׁקִיתָ֥ אוֹתָ֖ם יָֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* go to the.house of the.Rechabites and you.will.speak them and you will.bring.them the.house of.Yahweh to one of the.rooms and you.will.give.to.drink them wine

*JPS 1917:* 'Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5db_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b5_5db_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/): 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).