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# רֶקֶם

Biblical Hebrew

**Rekem** — 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

Rekem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b6_5e7_5b6_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫קֶם: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b6_5e7_5b6_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. m. a king of Midian Nu 31:8 (Ροκομ), Jos 13:21 (Ροβοκ, A Ροκομ, 𝔊 Οροκομ). a ‘son’ of Hebron 1 Ch 2:43, 44, Ρεκομ, Ροκομ, Ρωκημ. name in Gilead 1 Ch 7:16, 𝔊L Ρακαμ. loc. in Benj., Jos 18:27, Νακαν, A 𝔊L Ρεκεμ\[ν\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 18:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.27/#tree)

וְרֶ֥קֶם וְיִרְפְּאֵ֖ל וְתַרְאֲלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah

*JPS 1917:* and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b6_5e7_5b6_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b6_5e7_5b6_5dd/): 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).