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# רָעַן

Biblical Hebrew

**be luxuriant** — 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

be luxuriant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e2_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָעַן: vb. Paʿlel. grow luxuriant, fresh, green [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e2_5b7_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Paʿlel. be or grow luxuriant, fresh, green;—Pf. 3 fs. רַעֲנָ֑נָה (De Hiob) Jb 15:32 (of branch, in fig.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will grow luxuriant (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.32/#tree)

בְּֽלֹא־י֭וֹמוֹ תִּמָּלֵ֑א וְ֝כִפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א רַעֲנָֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* on not day his it.will.be.completed and his.palm branch not it.will.grow.luxuriant

*JPS 1917:* It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e2_5b7_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b8_5e2_5b7_5df/): 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).