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# רָפַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7502

**spread** — used 3 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

spread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7502/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָפַד: vb. spread Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7502/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spread (Assyrian rapâdu, stretch oneself; Arabic رَفَدَ prop up, support, aid, give, cf. Pi. infr.; Sab. רפדת pl. protection, guard, CIS iv, no. 40, 3, cf. ארפד terraces DHMHofmus.);— Impf. 3 ms. יִרְפַּד Jb 41:22 he (the crocodile) spread a threshing-sledge upon the mud (leaves marks upon it from his scales). Pf. 1 s. of couch (fig.) רִפַּדְתִּי יְצוּעָ֑י Jb 17:13; then (spread out any support, hence) Imv. mpl. sf. רַפְּדוּנִי Ct 2:5 support me with apples (‖ סַמְּכוּ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have spread out (1); it spreads out (1); refresh (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.22/#tree)

תַּ֭חְתָּיו חַדּ֣וּדֵי חָ֑רֶשׂ יִרְפַּ֖ד חָר֣וּץ עֲלֵי־טִֽיט׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].under it sharp.points of.potsherd\[s\] it.spreads.out a.threshing.sledge on mud

*JPS 1917:* Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.

[Job 17:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.13/#tree)

אִם־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃

*Word for word:* if I.will.wait.for Sheol home my in the darkness I.have.spread.out beds my

*JPS 1917:* If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7502.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7502/): 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).