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# רָכַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7401

**be tender** — used 8 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

be tender [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7401/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָכַךְ: vb. be tender, weak, soft Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7401/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be tender, weak, soft (Arabic رَكَّ, Aramaic רְכַךְ (in der. spec. and deriv.), ܪܰܟ, id.);— Pf. 3 ms. רַךְ 2 K 22:19; 2 Ch 34:27; 3 pl. רַכּוּ ψ 55:22; Impf. יֵרַךְ (Ges§ 67 p) Is 7:4 +;— be tender, weak, of heart: be timid, fearful, ‖ יָרֵא, Is 7:4; Je 51:46; Dt 20:3. be softened, penitent, ‖ כָּנַע Niph., 2 K 22:19 = 2 Ch 34:27 be soft, of treacherous words ψ 55:22 (c. מִן comp.; ‖ II. חָלַק). Pf. 3 fs. רֻכְּכָה Is 1:6 it has not been softened, mollified, with oil (of wound, מַכָּה). Pf. 3 ms. וְאֵל הֵרַךְ לִבִּי Jb 23:16 (Ges§ 67 v), causat. of Qal 1 a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was soft (2); let it be timid (2); he has made timid (1).

## In the verses

[Job 23:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.16/#tree)

וְ֭אֵל הֵרַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י הִבְהִילָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* and God he.has.made.timid heart my and.\[the\] Almighty he has.terrified.me

*JPS 1917:* Yea, God hath made my heart faint, and the Almighty hath affrighted me;

[Psalms 55:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.22/#tree)

חָלְק֤וּ ׀ מַחְמָאֹ֣ת פִּיו֮ וּֽקֲרָב־לִ֫בּ֥וֹ רַכּ֖וּ דְבָרָ֥יו מִשֶּׁ֗מֶן וְהֵ֣מָּה פְתִחֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* they.were.smooth the.creamy.things his.mouth his and.\[was\] war heart his they.were.soft words his more than.oil and they \[were\].drawn.swords

*JPS 1917:* Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet were they keen-edged swords.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7401.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7401/): 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).