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# רָפֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7504

**slack** — 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

slack [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7504/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָפֶה: adj. slack Qal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7504/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. slack;—abs. ר׳, of people, Nu 13:18 (J); cstr. רְפֵה יָדַיִם 2 S 17:2, i.e. weak (‖ יָגֵעַ); fpl. יָדַיִם רָפוֹת fig. of discouragement and fear Is 35:3; Jb 4:3. cf. √ Qal. 2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: slack (3); feeble (1).

## In the verses

[Job 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.3/#tree)

הִ֭נֵּה יִסַּ֣רְתָּ רַבִּ֑ים וְיָדַ֖יִם רָפ֣וֹת תְּחַזֵּֽק׃

*Word for word:* there! you.have.instructed many.\[people\] and hands slack you.strengthened

*JPS 1917:* Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

[Isaiah 35:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.35.3/#tree)

חַזְּק֖וּ יָדַ֣יִם רָפ֑וֹת וּבִרְכַּ֥יִם כֹּשְׁל֖וֹת אַמֵּֽצוּ׃

*Word for word:* strengthen hands slack and knees \[which\].stumble make.firm

*JPS 1917:* Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7504.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7504/): 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).