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# רֶכֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7406

**roughness** — 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

roughness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7406/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dub.; perhaps roughness (of ground;? lit. binding, knot); or bound up, impeded, i.e. the impassable; or mountain-chain (v. Thes);—pl. הָֽרְכָסִים Is 40:4 (‖ הֶעַקֹב; opp. בִּקְעָה).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: places (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.4/#tree)

כָּל־גֶּיא֙ יִנָּשֵׂ֔א וְכָל־הַ֥ר וְגִבְעָ֖ה יִשְׁפָּ֑לוּ וְהָיָ֤ה הֶֽעָקֹב֙ לְמִישׁ֔וֹר וְהָרְכָסִ֖ים לְבִקְעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* every valley it.will.be.lifted.up and every mountain and hill they.will.become.low and it.will.become the.steep \[place\] (into).level ground and the.rough places (into).a plain

*JPS 1917:* Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the rugged shall be made level, and the rough places a plain;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7406.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7406/): 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).