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# רָפַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7514

**support oneself** — 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

support oneself [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7514/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָפַק: vb. support oneself, lean [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7514/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. support oneself, lean (Ethiopic ረፈቀ reclinare, accumbere ad mensam; cf. Arabic رَفَقَ be gentle, bind camel’s arm to prevent going quickly; مَرْفِقٌ NH מַרְפַּק, J.Aram מַרְפְּקָא, elbow);—Pt. f. מִתְרַפֶּקֶת Ct 8:5 (c. עַל pers.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.5/#tree)

מִ֣י זֹ֗את עֹלָה֙ מִן־הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר מִתְרַפֶּ֖קֶת עַל־דּוֹדָ֑הּ תַּ֤חַת הַתַּפּ֙וּחַ֙ עֽוֹרַרְתִּ֔יךָ שָׁ֚מָּה חִבְּלַ֣תְךָ אִמֶּ֔ךָ שָׁ֖מָּה חִבְּלָ֥ה יְלָדַֽתְךָ׃

*Word for word:* who? this \[is\].coming.up from the wilderness leaning.herself on lover her under the.apple tree I aroused.you there (to) she was.in.labor.with.you mother your there (to) she.was.in.labor she bore.you

*JPS 1917:* Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7514/): 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).