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# רֵכָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7394

**Rechab** — used 13 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

Rechab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7394/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֵכָב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7394/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (bond of riders? cf. Arabic رِكَابٌ camels used in journeying);— Ρηχαβ: in יְהוֹנָדָב בֶּן־ר׳ (Jehu’s time, v. יְהו׳) 2 K 10:15, 23, whose descendants \[or, the members of whose society, RSK 15, yet v NöZMG xl (1886), 171\] were contemp. with Jerem., Je 35:6, 8, 14, 16, 19; 1 Ch 2:55 הַקִּינִים (v. קֵינִי) are said to be descended from Ḥammath, אֲבִי בֵית־רֵכָב.—On the asceticism of diff. tribes cf. Diodxix. 94 (Nabataeans), PalmerDesert 432 (Kheibarí Jews in Arabia); v. also BertholStellung Isr. zu d. Fremden 80. (perhaps = a, so EMeyEntstehung 147) in מַלְכִּיָּה בֶן־ר׳ Ne 3:14. in Benjamin, 2 S 4:2 (Ρηχαβ), v 5, 6, 9 (Ρεκχα; A 𝔊L Ρηχαβ in all).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Rechab (8); Rechab (4); \[was\] Rechab (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.55/#tree)

וּמִשְׁפְּח֤וֹת סֹפְרִים֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י יַעְבֵּ֔ץ תִּרְעָתִ֥ים שִׁמְעָתִ֖ים שׂוּכָתִ֑ים הֵ֚מָּה הַקִּינִ֣ים הַבָּאִ֔ים מֵחַמַּ֖ת אֲבִ֥י בֵית־רֵכָֽב׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] clans of.\[the\].Sophrites \[who.were\].dwelling of.Jabez \[were.the\].Tirathites \[the\].Shimeathites \[the\].Sucathites they \[were\].the Kenites \[who\] came from Hammath the.father of.Beth Rechab

*JPS 1917:* And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

[2 Samuel 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.6/#tree)

וְ֠הֵנָּה בָּ֜אוּ עַד־תּ֤וֹךְ הַבַּ֙יִת֙ לֹקְחֵ֣י חִטִּ֔ים וַיַּכֻּ֖הוּ אֶל־הַחֹ֑מֶשׁ וְרֵכָ֛ב וּבַעֲנָ֥ה אָחִ֖יו נִמְלָֽטוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.\[fem\] they.came to the.middle of the.house taking (of).wheat(s) and they struck.him into the belly and Rechab and Baanah brother his they.escaped

*JPS 1917:* And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the groin; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7394.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7394/): 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).