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# רעה

Biblical Hebrew

**break** — 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

break [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5e2_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (Aramaic רְעָא ܪܥܶܐ, take pleasure (in), desire, = Arabic رضى \[Heb. רָצָה\], whence Aramaic רְעוּתָא desire, רַעֲיָנָא, רַעֲיוֹנָא, ܪܶܥܝܳܢܳܐ opinion, thought, disposition, and following late and Aramaic words in Heb., cf. NöZMG liv (1900), 155; \> De Siegf Qoh. 18 al. from I. רעה 2 b, cf. Ho 12:2, and Arabic رَعَى watch, regard, respect (Lane) \[BaWU 46 f. Kau Aramaismen 82 f. deriv foll. from I. רעה = observe, attend to, specif. tend sheep, also aim at, purpose\]).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: utterly (break) (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 24:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.19/#tree)

רֹ֥עָה הִֽתְרֹעֲעָ֖ה הָאָ֑רֶץ פּ֤וֹר הִֽתְפּוֹרְרָה֙ אֶ֔רֶץ מ֥וֹט הִֽתְמוֹטְטָ֖ה אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* utterly.(break) it.has.been.broken the earth utterly.(split) it.has.been.split.through \[the\].earth utterly.(shake) it.has.been.shaken \[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* The earth is broken, broken down, the earth is crumbled in pieces, the earth trembleth and tottereth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5e2_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5e2_5d4/): 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).