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# רֶפֶשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7516

**mire** — 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

mire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7516/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

ר֫פֶשׁ: mire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7516/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mire;—Is 57:20 (+ טִיט).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: mire (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 57:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.20/#tree)

וְהָרְשָׁעִ֖ים כַּיָּ֣ם נִגְרָ֑שׁ כִּ֤י הַשְׁקֵט֙ לֹ֣א יוּכָ֔ל וַיִּגְרְשׁ֥וּ מֵימָ֖יו רֶ֥פֶשׁ וָטִֽיט׃

*Word for word:* and the.wicked \[people\] \[are\].like the sea \[which.is\].tossed (dm) to.be.quiet not it.is.able and they.have.tossed.up waters its mire and mud

*JPS 1917:* But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7516.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7516/): 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).