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# רֶכֶשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7409

**steeds** — 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

steeds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7409/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫כֶשׁ: n.m. coll. steeds [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7409/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Est 8, 10 coll. steeds (connex. with √ dub.);—abs. ר׳ Mi 1:13 +, רָ֑כֶשׁ 1 K 5:8;—+ סוּסִים 1 K 5:8, harnessed to chariot Mi 1:13, ridden Est 8:10 (+ סוּסִים; defined as בְּנֵי הָרַמָּכִים), v 14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: steed\[s\] (2); the steed\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Micah 1:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.13/#tree)

רְתֹ֧ם הַמֶּרְכָּבָ֛ה לָרֶ֖כֶשׁ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת לָכִ֑ישׁ רֵאשִׁ֨ית חַטָּ֥את הִיא֙ לְבַת־צִיּ֔וֹן כִּי־בָ֥ךְ נִמְצְא֖וּ פִּשְׁעֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* harness the chariot to the steed\[s\] O.inhabitant\[s\] of.Lachish \[was.the\].beginning of.sin it for the.daughter of.Zion (dm) in you they.were.found the.transgressions of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Bind the chariots to the swift steeds, O inhabitant of Lachish; she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel are found in thee.

[Esther 8:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.14/#tree)

הָרָצִ֞ים רֹכְבֵ֤י הָרֶ֙כֶשׁ֙ הָֽאֲחַשְׁתְּרָנִ֔ים יָֽצְא֛וּ מְבֹהָלִ֥ים וּדְחוּפִ֖ים בִּדְבַ֣ר הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְהַדָּ֥ת נִתְּנָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* the runners \[who\].rode of the.steed\[s\] (the) royal they.went.out hastened and hurried at the.word of the.king and the law it.was.given in Susa the citadel

*JPS 1917:* So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the castle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7409.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7409/): 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).