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# רָקַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7556

**spit** — 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

spit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7556/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָקַק: vb. spit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7556/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spit (NH, Aramaic רְקַק, ܪܰܩ, all = BH);— Impf. 3 ms. יָרֹק Lv 15:8, c. ב of pers. spit upon.—cf. יָרַק.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, 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: he will spit (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.8/#tree)

וְכִֽי־יָרֹ֛ק הַזָּ֖ב בַּטָּה֑וֹר וְכִבֶּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.spit the.\[one\] discharging on.(the) pure \[person\] and he.will.wash garments his and he.will.wash with (the) water and he.will.be.unclean until the evening

*JPS 1917:* And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7556.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7556/): 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).