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# רָצַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7520

**watch** — 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

watch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7520/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָצַד: vb. watch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7520/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. watch stealthily, or with envious hostility (Arabic رَصَدَ watch or wait (often lie in wait for; ירצד Ecclus 14:22 observe stealthily, so once Aramaic רְצַד LevyNHWB iv. 464);—only Impf. 2 mpl. תְּרַצְּדוּן ψ 68:17 (fig. of mts., c. acc.).

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, 1 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: do (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.17/#tree)

לָ֤מָּה ׀ תְּֽרַצְּדוּן֮ הָרִ֪ים גַּבְנֻ֫נִּ֥ים הָהָ֗ר חָמַ֣ד אֱלֹהִ֣ים לְשִׁבְתּ֑וֹ אַף־יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָנֶֽצַח׃

*Word for word:* why? do you.watch.with.envy O.mountains peaks the mountain \[which\].he.desired God he to dwell.in also Yahweh he.will.dwell to perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode? Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7520.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7520/): 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).