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# רֶפֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7517

**stable** — 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

stable [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7517/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫פֶת: stable, stall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7517/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] appar. stable, stall (NH id.; √ dub.; Thes from רפף, cf. Arabic رَفٌّ enclosure for sheep and goats, but no satisfactory meaning of רפף known);—pl. רְפָתִים Hb 3:17 (for cattle).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 3:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.17/#tree)

כִּֽי־תְאֵנָ֣ה לֹֽא־תִפְרָ֗ח וְאֵ֤ין יְבוּל֙ בַּגְּפָנִ֔ים כִּחֵשׁ֙ מַעֲשֵׂה־זַ֔יִת וּשְׁדֵמ֖וֹת לֹא־עָ֣שָׂה אֹ֑כֶל גָּזַ֤ר מִמִּכְלָה֙ צֹ֔אן וְאֵ֥ין בָּקָ֖ר בָּרְפָתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[the\].fig.tree not it.buds and there.\[is\].not produce on the vines it.fails \[the\].product of.\[the\].olive.tree and fields not it.produces food someone.cuts.off from.\[the\] fold \[the\].flock and there.\[are\].not cattle in the stalls

*JPS 1917:* For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7517.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7517/): 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).